ArticlesCategory :: Job or EducationBy FoxNews.com 9/7/2010 "Thanks to a long Labor Day weekend, most students heading back to school today will enjoy a four-day school week. But for some students around the country, every week this school year will be only four days." Read the entire article: http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/07/shorter-school-weeks-to-save-money/#ixzz0ysfR0qa0 By Medline Plus 9/6/2010 "As parents prepare for their children's return to school, they need to remember that healthy meals and snacks are essential for learning." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102999.html By The Royal Gazette - Bermuda 8/31/2010 ""Deadbeat parents" will be stopped from licensing their motor vehicles until they pay outstanding child support under new legislation to be tabled this autumn." Read the entire article: http://www.royalgazette.com/rg/Article/article.jsp?articleId=7da8fb730030000§ionId=60 By Time 9/1/2010 "...But now there's evidence that the ship may finally be turning around: according to a new analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201527400
By Jornal.us "...The court said that Willie’s ex, in perfect physical and mental health and capable of full time employment had refused to contribute to her own upkeep. She held a college degree but testified that she had no intention of getting a job. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.jornal.us/article-5175.Child-Support-the-war-against-fathers-Part-2.html By George F Will -- Washington Post 8/29/2010 "...Employment prospects for young black men worsened even when the economy was robust. By the early 2000s, more than a third of all young black non-college men were under the supervision of the corrections system. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/27/AR2010082703805.html By MedlinePlus 8/29/2010 "Anxiety can be a problem for some college and university freshmen, but there are a number of ways they can cope with new experiences and challenges, an expert suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102730.html By The Daily Times 8/26/2010 "...Watch D.O.G.S. is a National Center for Fathering initiative that organizes fathers and father figures in order to provide positive male role models for the students and enhance school security. Foothills Elementary School’s program is open to dads, stepdads, grandfathers and other father figures. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20100826/NEWS/308269988 By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "Aim High! 101 Tips for Teens is a very quick read with short (sometimes too short) tips on issues that teens confront every day. From the practical aspects of getting along, such as homework, compromise and friends to important traditional values like loyalty, forgiveness and modesty, this book helps teens take a moment to think about their actions and the consequences of their choices." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/dadsandteens/gr/aim_high.htm?nl=1 By New York Times 8/18/2010 "...It's a development that predates the current economic doldrums, and no one knows yet what the impact will be — on the prospects of the young men and women, on the parents on whom so many of them depend, on society, built on the expectation of an orderly progression in which kids finish school, grow up, start careers, make a family and ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html?emc=eta1 By Medline Plus 8/20/2010 "Being bullied in cyberspace and "sexting" are major problems for school-age children, and parents need to be aware of this to protect them, says an expert." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102438.html By The Washington Times 8/23/2010 "...At some point, we will have to come to grips with the fact that a very large percentage of our students fail because they lack a father and mother who value, encourage, support and reinforce their efforts to learn. Common sense tells us there is no surer recipe for the child to lag behind in learning than having to contend with the strain and disruption of a broken, dysfunctional family..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/23/why-young-black-men-dont-graduate/?page=2 By CNN Health 8/26/2010 "...Children across the country are heading back to school, and new research from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America shows that a third of parents are concerned computers and texting make it harder to communicate with media-engrossed teens about sex, drugs, alcohol and other risky behaviors. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/26/kids.drugs.text/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn By Medline Plus 8/19/2010 "Drugs and gangs are common problems at public schools in the United States, a new teen survey shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102382.html By Medline Plus 8/19/2010 "...Surveys by Mental Health America and other researchers have found that people affected by the lousy economy have a higher risk for mental illness, especially such conditions as depression and anxiety. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102374.html By ABC News 8/19/2010 "Massachusetts high school teacher June Talvitie-Siple learned the hard way that a Facebook wall is probably not the best place to spout off about the students and parents in her community." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-firing-teacher-loses-job-commenting-students-parents/story?id=11437248 By New York Times 8/20/2010 "A tragic crisis of enormous magnitude is facing black boys and men in America." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/opinion/21herbert.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 By The Grio 8/17/2010 "Are young black men ready for the increasingly brutal, knowledge-based job market in the U.S.? The answer is a resounding "no," according to a new report, Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males 2010. Calling it a "national crisis," the report found that only 47 percent of black males graduated from high school in the 2007-2008 school year." Read the entire article: http://www.thegrio.com/specials/making-the-grade/grim-graduate-rates-for-black-males-highlight-racial-gap-in-schools.php By Gordon E Finley -- Letters to the Editor/Washington Times "Although it is widely purported that women are paid less than men for equal work, the reality is otherwise ("Poll shows mixed feelings about feminism," Nation, Tuesday)." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/19/gender-pay-gap-reflects-choices-not-bias/ By The Shropshire Star 8/13/2010 "Many primary schools across Shropshire do not have one male teacher – depriving growing boys of a positive role model." Read the entire article: http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/education/2010/08/13/many-shropshire-primary-schools-have-no-male-teachers/#ixzz0x1UzJqjn By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "With the first day of school drawing near, parents and children across the country are getting set for the annual back to school campaign. There is so much to do to be ready, from shopping for clothing and supplies to getting the family organized. This list is designed to make the process easier for dads to manage." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/backtoschool/a/bts_checklist.htm?nl=1 By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "The first week that our oldest son was in first grade, he experienced an extreme case of back to school stress." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/backtoschool/a/btsstress.htm?nl=1 By Medline Plus 8/15/2010 "...Compared to abstainers, teens who only have casual sex are at greater risk for lower grades and problems in school, and are more likely to be expelled or suspended, less likely to be attached to school, and less likely to go to college. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102214.html By USA Today 7/18/2010 "... The job cuts, prison officials say, mean a dramatic reduction in job training for inmates preparing for release, lost wages for prisoners to pay down child support and other court-ordered fines, and more tension in already overcrowded institutions. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-07-19-1Ainmatelayoffs19_ST_N.htm By Chicago Sun Times 8/12/2010 "What warrants a guy jumping from a third-story window? Fire? Terrorist attack? For a North Side man Tuesday, it was to avoid going to jail for allegedly not paying child support." Read the entire article: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2591286,CST-NWS-jump12.article By World Magazine 8/11/2010 "Fatherlessness affects all of us and is the root of all kinds of evil and brokenness. It is been well documented that 60 percent of rapists, 72 percent of adolescent murderers, and 70 percent of long-term prison inmates are men who grew up in homes without dads. " Read the entire article: http://online.worldmag.com/2010/08/11/the-priority-of-fatherlessness/ By The Vancouver Sun "He may leave his socks lying around and avoid emptying the dishwasher, but a new study shows husbands do as much work as their wives." Read the entire article: http://www.vancouversun.com/Life/women+same+amount+work/3367254/story.html#ixzz0wDQye12O By Yahoo.com 8/6/2010 "Our personalities stay pretty much the same throughout our lives, from our early childhood years to after we're over the hill, according to a new study." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100806/sc_livescience/personalitysetforlifeby1stgradestudysuggests By Medline Plus 8/8/2010 "Fractures are the fourth most common type of injury suffered by high school athletes in the United States and can be serious and costly, a new study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101973.html By Medline Plus 8/7/2010 "As the new school year approaches, parents and children planning their "back-to-school" lists are urged to keep backpack safety in mind." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101968.html By Healthy Children.com "...Some of these children eventually dread going to school at all. In fact, research shows that children who are bullied are more likely to skip going to class; some even drop out of school altogether. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/obesity/pages/Teasing-and-Bullying.aspx? By WalesOnline – United Kingdom "...But Meredith, from Merthyr Tydfil, said he had not deducted any money from his wages because he was disputing the amount owed. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/08/07/firm-failed-to-take-85k-child-support-from-pay-91466-27014831/
By Helium "...The sad part is that it's not necessarily because the person that is asked to pay doesn't want to help take care of their children. It's contentious because the needs and the abilities of that parent are not taken into consideration. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.helium.com/items/1912136-child-support-guidelines By ScienceDaily 7/7/2010 "A study that examined 30 years of standardized test data from the very highest-scoring seventh graders has found that performance differences between boys and girls have narrowed considerably, but boys still outnumber girls by more than about 3-to-1 at extremely high levels of math ability and scientific reasoning." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706113210.htm By Science Daily 7/20/2010 "The way a family interacts can have more of an impact on a child's predicted school success than reading, writing or arithmetic, according to a University of Notre Dame study published recently in the Journal of Child Development." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100720162317.htm By Omaha World-Herald - Nebraska 7/31/2010 "...The program is for boys in fourth through 12th grades, and there is a $5 annual membership fee. Any son and father or father figure (such as an uncle or grandfather) may participate. Organizers want the boys to choose who participates with them, but it can’t be a different person each time, Maxwell said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.omaha.com/article/20100731/NEWS01/707319845 By The Washington Times 7/21/2010 "...Boys have lagged behind girls in reading achievement for more than 20 years, but the gender gap now exists in nearly every state and has widened to mammoth proportions — as much as 10 percentage points in some, according to the Center on Education Policy. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/21/will-fart-fiction-get-boys-to-read/ By MLive.com - Michigan 7/28/2010 "County residents who fall behind on their child support payments could have their cars immobilized and have to pay up to $250 in additional fees to get their vehicles back under a new Friend of the Court initiative." Read the entire article: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/07/falling_behind_on_child_suppor.html By Tbo.com - Florida 7/29/2010 "They tell Winter that they haven't made their payments because they're unemployed. Despite their efforts to land a job they remain part of the county's 11.8 percent unemployed." Read the entire article: http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2010/jul/29/la-jobless-parents-cant-afford-to-pay-child-suppor/ By WBXH - Louisiana 7/28/2010 "A Baton Rouge man is fighting to prove he is not the father of two children he believes he has wrongfully been paying child support on, possibly for years." Read the entire article: http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=12889910 By Minnesota Public Radio - Minnesota 7/30/2010 "The recession is creating a crisis for the courts and for families dealing with child support. Parents who have faithfully kept up with their child support are falling behind and flooding the courts with requests for help, so Hennepin County officials are taking steps to keep the problem from getting worse." Read the entire article: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/07/30/reconsider-child-support/ By ABC Action News - Florida 7/30/2010 "...According to a pay check stub, Thorpe’s employer regularly garnished his check for a total of $578 to pay his child support. “My ex-wife kept on complaining 'Kevin, I am not getting the money'. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/money/consumer/taking_action_for_you/father%E2%80%99s-child-support-money-doesn%E2%80%99t-reach-his-child- By San Antonio Express - Texas 8/2/2010 "...Since Bexar County was known for incarcerating more “deadbeat dads” than any other place in Texas, Wilson's outlook could have been bleak, he acknowledged Friday. But what he didn't realize was that Bexar County also has one of the most effective job placement programs in the state for low- or no-income parents who want to work. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.mysanantonio.com/moms/program_helps_parents_pay_child_support_99735604.html By Medline Plus 7/28/2010 "Teens with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more likely to drop out of high school or delay completing high school than other kids, a new study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101588.html By Medline Plus 7/28/2010 "People with higher levels of education are better able to cope with dementia-related brain changes, which may explain why better-educated folks have a lower risk of developing dementia, researchers say." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101578.html By Medline Plus 7/30/2010 "Though bad behavior may be a typical phase of childhood, certain signs can indicate something more serious." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101673.html By Northwest Public Radio 8/2/2010 "Rarely do ads for legislative races get this personal. But Washington Republicans are pulling no punches. They’ve launched an ad campaign against a Washington state lawmaker accused of domestic violence." Read the entire article: http://nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=7616 Morris County faces lawsuit from officer who refused to fire gun while pregnantFriday, 30 July 2010
By NJ.com 7/13/2010 "Morris County is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a sheriff’s officer who claims she was discriminated against when she was required to fire a gun while pregnant." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/morris_county_sheriffs_office_seeks_d.html By Medline Plus 7/23/2010 "U.S. colleges aren't doing enough to limit student access to alcohol, a new study contends." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101431.html By Beloit Daily News - Wisconsin "...He works with a pool of about 50 employers. He said the men in his program can get wages, a job history and skills during the six months of employment. Although many of the men in the Fatherhood Program qualify, others are encouraged to apply for the program as well. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2010/07/17/news/top_news/news1701.txt By The Star-Ledger - NJ.com – New Jersey 7/19/2010 "Democratic state senators are mounting a challenge to a bill that would garnish income tax refunds from homeowners delinquent on their property taxes, questioning whether it adequately protects child support payments and saying it would punish the unemployed." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/nj_senate_democrats_challenge.html By Medline Plus 7/16/2010 "...The U.S. researchers who reviewed 153 studies from the last 30 years also found that boys bully more than girls. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101164.html By Nicholas D. Kristof -- New York Times 7/21/2010 "...If school performance predicts career success, then women may do even better a few decades from now, for girls clearly excel in school as never before. The National Honor Society, for top high school students, says that 64 percent of its members are girls. The Center on Education Policy cites data showing that boys lag girls in reading in every American state. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/opinion/22kristof.html?ref=columnists By Hanna Rosin -- The Atlantic July/August 2010 "...And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135 By Wayne Parker -- About.com, Fatherhood Guide "Are you struggling like many dads with what to do about social networking?" Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/07/17/social-networking-101.htm?nl=1 By MedlinePlus 7/23/2010 "Teens with sunnier outlooks also tend to be healthier, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101429.html By The Detroit News - Michigan 7/21/2010 "...The final vote can't come quickly enough for Virginia Chester, a 37-year-old single mom in Grant, Mich., north of Grand Rapids, who cashed her last unemployment check on July 3. "My only income is child support, which is enough to feed us," said Chester, who was laid off as a billing processor in June 2009. "The last few weeks, I haven't been able to pay any bills."..." By Medline Plus 7/16/2010 "Youngsters and teens who lack social problem-solving skills are more likely to become bullies, victims or both, while those who also do poorly at school are even more likely to become bullies, according to a new study." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101164.html By Mount Vernon News 7/16/2010 "Child support owed to many Ohio children can sit in the accounts of the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services for months before it is distributed to families, if it has been collected through an offset of federal income tax refund." Read the entire article: http://www.mountvernonnews.com/local/10/07/16/some-child-support-payments-sit-for-months By SILive.com – New York 7/6/2010 "...Children whose parents continue to fight after the first or second year following a divorce will experience a number of devastating consequences, including physical changes (such as increased blood pressure and increased stress levels), anxiety and depression, acting-out behaviors and academic problems at school. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.silive.com/relationships/index.ssf/2010/07/shield_your_kids_from_toxicity_of_a_high-conflict_divorce.html By Montgomery Advertiser - Alabama 7/3/2010 "After Andrey Scott lost his job about a week after his newborn son was born, he made his child a promise: he would never make him "want" for anything." Read the entire article: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20100703/NEWS01/7030352/New-dad-faces-challenges-of-fatherhood-unemployment By New York Times 7/9/2010 "...“We found a negative effect on academic achievement,” he said. “I was surprised, but as we presented our findings at various seminars, people in the audience said they weren’t surprised, given their own experiences with their school-age children.” ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/11digi.html?th&emc=th By New York Times 7/10/2010 "The boy, a dark-haired 6-year-old, is playing with a new companion. The two hit it off quickly — unusual for the 6-year-old, who has autism — and the boy is imitating his playmate’s every move, now nodding his head, now raising his arms. " Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/science/11robots.html?th&emc=th By Medline Plus 7/6/2010 "Teens who "cyberbully" others via the Internet or cell phones are more likely to suffer from both physical and psychiatric troubles, and their victims are at heightened risk, too, a Finnish study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100742.html By Medline Plus 7/5/2010 "High school students at a private school in Rhode Island who started school a half-hour later in the morning were in better moods, more alert, less depressed and more likely to actually attend class than before the time change, a new study shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100709.html By Healthy Children "Not surprisingly, some single and working parents have grown to dread school vacations, legal holidays (like Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Washington's Birthday), and "teacher in-service days." These are days when the child is out of school but parents usually have to be at work." Read the entire article: http://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/work-play/pages/Managing-School-Holidays-and-Vacations.aspx? By Houston Chronicle 6/29/2010 "Texas school districts no longer can force teachers to give students higher grades than they earned on class assignments or on their report cards, a Travis County judge ruled Monday." Read the entire article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7086112.html By The Associated Press 7/6/2010 "...Worthy has a new idea she hopes will fix the problem: Jail parents for up to three days for repeatedly missing scheduled parent-teacher conferences. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i0rq9mGi5LSJUk6Y1iX4chnj_WmgD9GPFHIG5
By Mail Online - UK 7/7/2010 "...The taxi driver had gone to watch his son, a year seven pupil, compete in sprints and egg-and-spoon races. But teachers refused to let him spectate because they did not believe he had undergone checks by the Criminal Records Bureau. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1292909/School-sports-day-ban-father-criminal-records-check.html
By Christina Hoff Sommers -- The American 7/1/2010 "Boys are falling behind girls in our nation’s schools. Fewer boys graduate from high school, and boys are less likely to attend college. One education expert has quipped that if current trends continue, the last male will graduate from college in 2068." Read the entire article: http://www.american.com/archive/2010/june-2010/are-there-more-girl-geniuses By BBC 6/18/2010 "...A mother, Jo, [not her real name] said her son's secondary school refused to interact with her despite a court order giving her joint residency of her son, even though he lives most of the year with his father. She said: "I need to know, from the school, how he's doing. "It makes it difficult for me to deal with my own child."..." Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/10347876.stm
By Children & Young People Now – United Kingdom 6/29/2010 "...Field added that the role of breadwinner has been taken over by the taxpayer because unmarried fathers are often "young, unemployed, unemployable and unskilled". But Rob Williams, chief executive of think-tank Fatherhood Institute, said Field’s views dated to the 1950s and called on policy-makers to focus on schemes to support fathers’ engagement with family life. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/ByDiscipline/Social-Care/1013144/Fatherhood-Institute-chief-slams-Frank-Field-unemployed-fathers-comment/ By The New York Times - Europe 6/30/2010 "France is embarking on a grand experiment — how to diversify the overwhelmingly white “grandes écoles,” the elite universities that have produced French leaders in every walk of life — and Rizane el-Yazidi is one of the pioneers." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/world/europe/01ecoles.html?partner=rss&emc=rss By CNN.com 6/30/2010 "...We're finally realizing not only that sexual assault exists and how prevalent it is, but there is such a thing as a female perpetrator," Robin Sax, a former prosecutor and author of "Predators and Molesters," told "Prime News."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/30/michigan.teacher.sex/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn Read the entire article By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide to Fatherhood 6/23/2010 "The Boston College Center for Work and Family has released a new study looking at today's new fathers and how they differ from past generations of new dads." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/06/23/new-study-from-boston-college-on-new-dads.htm?nl=1 By Yahoo News 6/26/2010 "Sarah Palin leveled criticism at California's attorney general and others raising questions about her visit to a cash-strapped university, telling supporters that students had better things to do than dive through Dumpsters to find out how much she earns speaking." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100626/ap_on_re_us/us_calif_palin_contract By Vox Day -- WorldNetDaily 6/28/2010 "There is a relentless war being waged against American men that literally spans the entire extent of their lives." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=171781 By Medline Plus 6/28/2010 "School-based efforts at better nutrition, more exercise and improved education about healthy living can help kids who are most at risk for obesity keep the weight off, compared to children in schools without such programs, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100458.html By Newsweek.com "...“The numbers go down for boys and girls, but they go down much more dramatically for boys,” says Amelia Arria, director of the center on young adult health and development at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. “It represents a 25 percent decrease for boys, but only a 1 percent decrease for girls. Girls are staying kind of level, and boys are dropping.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/29/study-shows-teen-girls-are-drinking-more-for-different-reasons-than-boys.html By CNN.com 6/29/2010 "...Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, fired Joseph Casias in November 2009 after he failed an on-the-job injury-related drug test. Casias suffers from a rare form of cancer in his nasal cavity and brain, and he relied on his doctor's medical marijuana prescription to alleviate the daily pain. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/06/29/medical.marijuana.walmart.lawsuit/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By New York Times 6/27/2010 "...The boy had never sent the texts. The lost phone had been found by someone else and used to send the messages. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/style/28bully.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=2&adxnnlx=1277866803-m3koG0uqy/hBe9Eq5fKJkg By KTLA.com 6/28/2010 "...Stephanie Ragusa plead guilty to repeated sexual encounters with a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-math-teacher-sex,0,7670220.story By National Post - Canada 6/21/2010 "...Instead, he’s a man hopelessly ensnared in a crushing bureaucratic machine: He’s in jail because he couldn’t pay child support, but he couldn’t pay child support because he was unemployed … and he was unemployed because the court took his driver’s license for failure to pay child support … after he went bankrupt paying his court costs. ..." Read the entire article: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/06/21/matt-gurney-man-jailed-by-courts-after-courts-bankrupt-him/ By MSNBC.com 6/23/2010 "President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying that his scathing published remarks about administration officials undermine civilian control of the military and erode the needed trust on the president's war team." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37866754/ns/us_news-military/ Obama named McChrystal's direct boss By FoxNews.com 6/23/2010 "Four California high school students are fighting for their right to show their patriotism any day of the year, after they were forced to remove their American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/23/students-sue-removal-american-flag-t-shirts/ By FoxNews.com 6/22/2010 "...Dostal’s 14-year-old son was one of a handful of eighth graders in the class. The students, she said, were given instruction on how to perform female exams and the instructor used a 3-D, anatomically correct male sex organ to explain how to use a condom. But Dostal said she was most upset over the instructor simulating sexual acts using stuffed animals designed to resemble STD’s. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/22/graphic-sex-ed-class/ By FoxNews.com 6/23/2010 "Seniors at a New Haven, Conn., high school will not be graduating “in the year of our Lord” this year – or any future years, according to the superintendent of schools.Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/23/connecticut-school-removes-lord-reference-high-school-diplomas/?test=latestnews By USA Today 6/23/2010 "...A new study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — which has invested more than $150 million in New York City schools — suggests that the small schools have succeeded in boosting graduation rates for the city's most academically challenged students. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-06-23-small-schools-class_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip By USA Today 5/10/2010 "...We're telling kids you'll be a third-class citizen if you don't go to college," said Marty Nemko, an education policy consultant and author. "And colleges are taking kids who in previous generations would not have gone to college."..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-05-11-remedial-college_N.htm By Times of India - India 6/20/2010 "...Today’s generation boasts of hands-on dads, the types who are just as involved in the care and upkeep of the child as the mother. ..." Read the entire article: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/people/Fatherhood-redefined/articleshow/6070981.cms By KTLA.com 6/21/2010 "A man working at a meat packing plant in Vernon lost his legs when he fell into a meat grinder, according to police." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-meat-grinder-leg-severed,0,479882.story By KTLA.com 6/17/2010 "...The nails were found with the points facing upward, hidden inside the sand of the playground, giving officials the indication they were not accidentally dropped in the area. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mission-viejo-school-nails,0,4854783.story By Glenn Sacks and Ned Holstein -- Cleveland.com 6/19/2010 "...While genuine child support evaders certainly exist, many noncustodial parents fall behind in their support because the current system is mulishly impervious to the economic realities working people face, such as layoffs, wage cuts, unemployment and work-related injuries. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/06/fathers_day_deadbeat_dad_raids.html By Deseret News 6/21/2010 "...The president outlined a series of plans to fund local projects that help train men for jobs, prevent domestic violence and take other steps to encourage healthy and loving families. He also announced a Justice Department program that would use the court system to help find jobs for men just leaving prison so they could meet their child support obligations and reconnect with their children as soon as possible. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700042059/Obama-Lets-help-Dads-connect-with-their-kids.html By People.com 6/21/2010 "Kyron Horman's stepmother, who is the subject of law enforcement attention in the missing 7-year-old boy's case, has taken two polygraph tests." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20395895,00.html By Telegraph.co.uk 6/7/2010 "...Malcolm Hurlston, chairman of the CCCS, said: "Men have been hard hit by the recession and are emerging as the new underclass. Debt alone is no longer the problem. It is loss of income and other rising costs. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/7808411/Debt-Men-are-emerging-as-the-new-underclass.html By MiamiHerald.com - Florida 6/15/2010 "...Just in time for Father's Day, a new report shows dads, much like Rega, are dramatically feeling the pull between work and family. Indeed, men reported their levels of work-life conflict have risen significantly over the past three decades, while the level of conflict reported by women has not changed much. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/15/1682639/balancing-act-the-new-dad-is-more.html
By IndyStar.com 6/18/2010 "Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels today called for a law to force public school districts to transfer unused school buildings to charter school startups looking for space." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100618/NEWS04/100618018/Daniels-Give-old-schools-to-charters By Washington Times 6/15/2010 "It's well-known that there's a severe gender imbalance in undergraduate college populations: About 57 percent of undergrads these days are female and just 43 percent male, the culmination of a trend in which significantly fewer young men than young women either graduate from high school or enroll in college." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/15/big-man-shortage-on-campus/ By Gordon E Finley PhD -- Mens News Daily 6/16/2010 "...All of this has changed, of course, as society and the economy have changed. Today Father’s Day and fatherhood itself are under fire on multiple fronts and with multiple losses, not only for children and fathers, but also for society. Consider three: male unemployment, divorce, and non-marital childbearing. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/06/16/on-fatherhood/ By People.com 6/16/2010 "University professor Amy Bishop – charged after allegedly opening fire on six of her colleagues and killing three, last February – is facing new charges that she also shot and killed her brother 24 years ago." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20394571,00.html By Billboard.com 6/8/2010 "R&B singer Chris Brown has postponed his tour to Britain after being denied a visa to enter the country ..." Read the entire article: http://www.billboard.com/news/chris-brown-denied-u-k-visa-postpones-tour-1004096108.story#/news/chris-brown-denied-u-k-visa-postpones-tour-1004096108.story By Nikolas D. Kristof - Op Ed - New York Times 6/16/2010 "...Another group is the Black Star Project, www.blackstarproject.org, which seeks to get families in low-income communities more involved in the educational lives of kids. Or there’s World of Money, www.worldofmoney.org, which coaches kids in poor communities on financial literacy and business skills. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/opinion/17kristof.html By ScienceDaily.com 6/10/2010 "...A study of almost 1400 families in secondary schools, reported in the International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies suggests that family involvement should be a priority in a child's education. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100610120939.htm By CNN.com 6/9/2010 " Sleep-deprived high school students who doze off in class aren't just risking the wrath of their teachers. They're also three times more likely to be depressed than their alert classmates who get enough sleep, a new study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/09/sleep.deprivation.depression/index.html?hpt=Sbin&hpt=T3 By The Sun 6/9/2010 "A US bank worker who claimed she was fired for being "too sexy" had cosmetic surgery to make her look like a Playboy centrefold." By New York Times 6/9/2010 "...From trendy central Stockholm to this village in the rugged forest south of the Arctic Circle, 85 percent of Swedish fathers take parental leave. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden.html?partner=rss&emc=rss By Find Law – Virginia/Massachusetts "I need to find the legal definition of "full time high school student" as it applies to child support termination under Virginia Law." Read the entire article: http://boards.answers.findlaw.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=83656.1&nav=messages&webtag=fl-family_law By HG.org 6/2/2010 "One common question is whether a parent has to pay child support if the children are receiving social security payments as a result of the parent's disability." Read the entire article: http://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=18966 By Huffington Post (blog) 6/9/2010 "...This redefinition of fatherhood is happening in millions of families around the country, where fathers are spending far more hours with their children every week than their dads spent with them. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maddy-dychtwald/gender-roles-are-men-stil_b_605974.html By The New York Times 6/7/2010 "...Men and women might, on average, have equal mathematical ability, but there could still be disproportionately more men with very low or very high scores. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/science/08tier.html?th&emc=th By Medline Plus 6/7/2010 " Up to 14 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression that is severe enough to disrupt their daily lives, new research shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99680.html By People.com 6/7/2010 "...The disappearance of the bespectacled second-grader has prompted a massive search by 60 trained searchers and additional volunteers. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391927,00.html By Medliine Plus 6/3/2010 "Low intelligence in young males has been linked to a much higher risk that they'll commit suicide, at least compared to their most intelligent counterparts, researchers say." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99560.html
By CNews -- California 6/1/2010 "A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a school to reinstate a 13-year-old boy who was suspended for wearing rosary beads, pending a hearing into whether the suspension violated his civil rights." Read the entire article: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/06/01/14220436.html By Rutherglen Reformer 6/2/1010 "...Rather than letting everything get on top of him though, the 35-year-old is relishing the prospect as growing both as a father and as a member of Parliament at the same time. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.rutherglenreformer.co.uk/rutherglen-news/rutherglen-local-news/2010/06/02/new-mp-faces-up-to-life-as-a-politician-and-a-father-63227-26566837/ By Oregon Live 6/1/2010 "...Yet just this month, the U.S. transportation secretary, under the auspices of the White House Council for Women (there is no White House Council for Men or any similar agency in the federal government while there are eight such departments for women) announced a new program to help women "to complete undergraduate and graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and math -- while pursuing careers in transportation."..." Read the entire article: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/06/men_should_be_more_than_a_nati.html By DadsDivorce.com 5/28/2010 "Divorce attorneys often hear frustrated dads upset that they have to keep paying more and more child support while the ex-wife barely works and appears to be living off the child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/articles/my-ex-is-living-off-child-support.html? By Science Daily 6/1/2010 "Children whose minds are stimulated in several early childhood settings -- home, preschool, and school -- have higher achievement in elementary school. What matters is not whether children's learning is supported at home, or stimulated in preschool or in elementary school, but that all three of these occur." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100514074913.htm By Helium - Nevada "No matter how frustrating it is going thru the process of enforcing child support, this frustration pales in comparison with the frustration that comes from dealing with the deadbeats themselves." Read the entire article: http://www.helium.com/items/1693875-nevadas-child-support-enfocement-failure By Medline Plus 5/28/2010 "A three-decade analysis of prior research reveals that American college students are not quite as empathetic as they used to be." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99341.html By Telegraph UK 5/28/2010 "Students in Manchester are having their thumbprints digitally transformed into electronic codes, which can then be recognised by a computer program." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7771112/Children-as-young-as-4-to-be-fingerprinted-to-borrow-school-books.html By CBS News 5/28/2010 "A Quebec elementary school gym teacher says he is struggling to rebuild his life after having been falsely accused of sexual touching." By Vox Day -- World Net Daily 5/31/2010 "For more than 100 years, college has been considered a sound and desirable investment in one's financial future. But unlike other forms of investment, those contemplating dropping more than $100,000 to obtain a degree from a private university, or $28,000 for one from a public university, seldom stop to consider whether what made sense for a previous generation still makes sense today." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=160401 By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 5/20/2010 "A new study released Wednesday by the Pew Charitable Trusts shows that the damage divorce does to poorer children's future economic mobility is even greater than the impact suffered from having only one parent." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/20/divorce-hinders-poorer-children/ By Houston Chronicle - Texas 5/25/2010 "...Jonas, 48, blames his incarceration on a vindictive spouse who wants to hold him to support and medical payments of $11,000 to $18,000 a month despite a decline in his income. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7022077.html By ABC 4 - Utah "...Kenyon Eastin says he's not a deadbeat Dad just misunderstood. The judge overseeing his case will not lower his child support payments from $800 dollars a month to $525 a month. Eastin claims lowering his payments are necessary for his survival, "It's not that I don't want to pay my child support, I cannot afford what the judge has set and he says I am voluntarily unemployed."..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc4.com/content/news/slc/story/Missed-Child-Support-Payments-Deadbeat-Dad-or-a/TdYoJDsZbU2rsGP7o6E3sg.cspx By FoxNews 5/23/2010 "Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson said she was "very sorry" for her lapse of judgment after she was recorded apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew in return for 500,000 pounds ($724,000)." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/23/duchess-york-sarah-ferguson-devastated-tabloid-newspaper-records-bribe-sting/ By FoxNews.com 5/24/2010 " 10-year-old German boy reportedly stole more than $21,000 from his parents to pay off bullies at his school who were threatening to attack him." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/24/german-boy-reportedly-steals-parents-pay-bullies/ By New York Daily News 5/24/2010 "A 21-year-old Western Michigan University student is facing a $750,000 lawsuit after launching a complaint against a towing company on the social networking site Facebook." By KTLA.com 5/20/2010 "A group of students from New Jersey were startled Wednesday morning, when their bus bypassed their route to school and instead went speeding down the New Jersey Turnpike." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/wpix-students-bus-mixup,0,7503666.story By FoxNews.com 5/21/2010 "An assistant principal at a Florida middle school sent a topless photo of herself to a 14-year-old boy, police say." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/21/assistant-principal-florida-sends-nude-picture-teen-police-say/ By Gordon E. Finley -- Washinton Times 5/18/2010 "...Today it is clear that "gender gaps" predominantly favor females and disfavor males. Specific examples would include strikingly higher rates of male unemployment, strikingly lower rates of male educational attainment, blatant gender bias in family and divorce law and, even when women and men initiate domestic violence at equal rates, the government's providing of services to women but not to men (as seen in the Violence Against Women Act). ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/18/the-pitfalls-of-pitting-ethnicities-genders/ By Straits Times - Singapore 5/19/2010 "Dr Haskins, one of the chief architects of a 1996 US welfare reform law that took away the cash entitlements of welfare beneficiaries and sent them out to work instead, believes that the best way for people to have a shot at a better life without breeding dependence is for them to go back to work. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_528490.html By KYW1060.com - Philadelphia 5/19/2010 "..."We really want to reach out to our clients who aren’t deadbeat fathers or mothers but are just dead broke.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.kyw1060.com/Montco-Job-Fair-Held-for-Parents-Who-Owe-Child-Sup/7105395 By Yahoo Finance 5/19/2010 "...Much has been written about the challenges awaiting at-home mothers who decide to return to work. Few of them, though, have a tougher time of it than the stay-at-home dad. ..." Read the entire article: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109593/daunting-task-for-mr-mom-get-a-job?mod=career-worklife_balance By People.com 5/19/2010 "....I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn’t have gotten married,” O’Donnell reveals in Redbook‘s June issue. ..." Read the entire article: http://celebritybabies.people.com/2010/05/19/chris-odonnell-i-chose-family-over-fame/ By FoxNews.com 5/20/2010 "Clashes among members of the Texas Board of Education over the content of students' textbooks have come, in part, to focus on a once obscure intellectual concept -- "American exceptionalism" -- that has now seen the president of the United States weigh in." Read the entire article: http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/05/20/texas-textbooks-is-america-exceptional/ By Salt Lake City Weekly - Utah 5/18/2010 "Kenyon Eastin, 41, is on day four of a hunger strike from within the Tooele County Jail, protesting the treatment he has received in Utah divorce court." Read the entire article: http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-3616-jailed-father-hunger-strikes-to-protest-child-support.html By US Dept. of Health and Human Services "...Bullying happens when someone hurts or scares another person on purpose. ..." Read the entire article: http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/HHS_PSA/pdfs/SBN_Tip_8.pdf By KTLA.com 5/18/2010 "South Gate High School was locked down for about an hour Tuesday morning after a 15-year-old student was shot on campus, police said." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-south-gate-school-shooting,0,7625708.story By MSNBC 5/18/2010 "The U.S. Department of Education found that Virginia Tech broke federal campus security laws by waiting too long to notify students during the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, a report released Tuesday said." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37217425/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ By MedlinePlus 5/14/2010 "Parental involvement in a child's elementary school experience leads to fewer problem behaviors and better social skills among offspring, new research suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98798.html By Medline Plus 5/14/2010 "Differences in the physical makeup of the brain could help explain why children with dyslexia have trouble with written language despite being able to handle other intellectual tasks, new research suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98806.html By Washington Post 5/14/2010 "Low-quality care in the first few years of life can have a small but long-lasting impact on a child's learning and behavior, according to new results from the largest, most authoritative assessment of child rearing in the United States." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/05/14/ST2010051401954.html?sid=ST2010051401954 By USAToday.com 5/14/2010 "...The legislation, SB 10-003, would enable public colleges that choose to do so to ratchet up their tuition to make up for the expected loss of state funds, enroll more foreign students to help bolster their tuition dollars, and give the colleges significantly more flexibility on a range of fronts. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-05-14-IHE-Colorado-budget-legislation-students14_ST_N.htm? By ABC News 5/14/2010 (Video) "The Texas teacher who was fired for allegedly slapping and kicking a 13-year-old student apologized for the incident Friday and the pain it caused." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/houston-teacher-sherri-davis-apologized-videotaped-beating-student/story?id=10649665 By Miami Herald 5/13/2010 "Parents at Coconut Grove Elementary School are calling for the ouster of Principal Eva N. Ravelo this week after she told a parent in an e-mail to ``eat sh-- and die.''..."
By LA Times 5/14/2010 "Glendale police said a woman invented a kidnapping hoax to avoid telling her parents that she had been lying to them about college." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/la-hoax14-m,0,2140237.story? By CNN 5/13/2010 "...The new law forbids elementary or secondary schools to teach classes that are "designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group" and advocate "the overthrow of the United States government" or "resentment toward a race or class of people."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/12/arizona.ethnic.studies/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By ScienceDaily.com 5/11/2010 "Zero tolerance policy in schools -- which can mandate automatic punishment for weapons, drugs, profanity and various forms of disruptive behavior -- is failing to make students feel safe, contends a new study by two Michigan State University researchers." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100510132157.htm By Ned Holstein, M.D -- Opinion Telegram 4/29/2010 "...Jason is a formerly happy fifth grader who is now morose and whose school performance has plummeted. He has a secret he won’t tell his teacher and can’t tell his single mother: He badly misses his every-other-weekend dad and his paternal grandparents. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegram.com/article/20100429/NEWS/4290680/1054/OPINION By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "Being a committed dad and trying to be a great employee sometimes run in conflict in a father's life. Probably the most common issue I hear from committed dads is the difficulty in balancing the work and home components of their life." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/cs/fatherhoodstories/a/familyfriendly.htm?nl=1 By Chicago Sun-Times 5/10/2010 "They've called it the "Mancession" -- a recession that has affected men disproportionately because of its brutal impact on male-dominated sectors like construction and manufacturing." Read the entire article: http://www.suntimes.com/business/2254120,CST-NWS-mancession10.article By KTLA.com 5/11/2010 "Calif. -- School district officials in Oxnard are investigating reports that two students engaged in a sex act during class." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-sex-in-class,0,845196.story By KTLA.com 5/8/2010 "Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt was ordered Friday to pay his estranged wife, Jamie, $225,000 a month in spousal support, plus $412,159 to pay the mortgages on the couple's properties." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dodger-mccourt-divorce,0,998425.story By FoxNews.com 5/7/2010 "...As of late Thursday, Jones said the five boys' parents have no plans to sue the school or Morgan Hill Unified School District, which has characterized the incident as "extremely unfortunate" and is conducting an ongoing investigation. Several attorneys have contacted the families offering to represent them pro bono, Jones said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/07/tensions-high-california-high-school-following-flag-flap/ By State Gazette - Tennessee 4/29/2010 "...Bivens spoke to students at Dyer County High School on Thursday as part of a campaign called "What's the Rush?", which aims to raise awareness of the legal, financial and social consequences of becoming a teen parent. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.stategazette.com/story/1630479.html By Center for Disease Control and Prevention "Fact Sheet...." Read the Fact Sheet: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/SchoolViolence_FactSheet-a.pdf By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 5/4/2010 "Boys and girls will be separated for sex education classes as part of a drive to cut the number of unmarried young mothers in an area notorious for teenage pregnancies. ..." By Wayne Parker -- About.com: Fatherhood 4/21/2010 "According to The Guardian, the number of fathers staying at home to raise children has increased in Great Britain by ten times in the last ten years. Certainly, the growing trend of stay-at-home dads is a positive for father-child relationships." Read the entire article http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/04/21/lots-more-british-dads-staying-home.htm?nl=1 By Cathy Young -- Boston Globe 4/14/2010 "Now, Duke is back in the news with a campus policy that ostensibly seeks to prevent sexual assault — but, in fact, infantilizes women, redefines much consensual sex as potentially criminal, and does a grave disservice to both sexes." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/04/14/dukes_sexist_sexual_misconduct_policy/ By Department of Education IES "Our nation’s schools should be safe havens for teaching and learning, free of crime and violence. Any instance of crime or violence at school not only affects the individuals involved, but also may disrupt the educational process and affect bystanders, the school itself, and the surrounding community (Henry 2000)." Read the entire article: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/crimeindicators2009/ By The Guardian 4/7/2010 "...The main reason families gave for men looking after the children was that the woman was the higher earner. The woman is the main breadwinner in 16% of families with dependent children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/07/rise-stay-at-home-fathers-study By Washington Post 4/28/2010 "...The National Workers Memorial will be dedicated Wednesday -- days after seven workers died in a blast at the Tesoro petroleum refinery in Anacortes, Wash.; after 29 miners were killed in an explosion in Montcoal, W.Va.; and after 11 crew members disappeared with an oil rig off the Louisiana coast. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/27/AR2010042705257.html?hpid=newswell By Cincinnati.com 4/27/2010 "As high school seniors prepare for graduation each year, the Clermont County Child Support Enforcement (CSE) office receives a lot of calls asking whether child support and medical insurance orders end when a child turns 18 or graduates from high school." Read the entire article: http://rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/gpstory.aspx?id=100225&sid=165295 By CBC.ca - Canada 4/28/2010 "A 58-year-old man from Rivers, Man. fell about seven metres to his death while working on a roof of a hangar building at a decommissioned air force base in the community." By theTrumpet.com – United Kingdom 4/28/2010 "... There, 90 percent of the teachers are women; many schools are staffed completely by women. Governments acknowledge that boys lag in reading and writing—in New Zealand, for example, two times more 10-to-12-year-old boys than girls require remedial reading help—but efforts to narrow the gap haven’t worked. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7161.5675.0.0 By WLNS - Michigan 4/22/2010 "...Don Bentley: "'Cause I haven't been working. That's how I got back on my child support. Not many jobs out there."..." Read the entire article: http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=12359566 By New York Times 2/5/2010 "...North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel eerily like women’s colleges. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07campus.html By The Australian - Australia 4/20/2010 "MORE fathers are taking primary care of their children after divorce and separation, with new figures revealing a steady increase in the number of mothers paying child support to fathers." Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/rise-in-mothers-paying-child-support/story-e6frg6nf-1225855704303 By KOCO Oklahoma City 4/19/2010 "The number of parents paying child support out of their unemployment compensation has increased by more than half in a year, according to figures from Oklahoma Child Support Services." Read the entire article: http://www.koco.com/mostpopular/23195891/detail.html By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 4/20/2010 "One in four families believe fathers are missing out on day-to-day involvement with their children because of their work and outdated attitudes to parental leave, say researchers." By YahooNews.com 4/15/2010 "The city will end the practice of paying teachers to play Scrabble, read or surf the Internet in reassignment centers nicknamed "rubber rooms" as they await disciplinary hearings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers union announced Thursday." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100415/ap_on_re_us/us_rubber_rooms By Medline Plus 4/15/2010 "Parents who worry that their teenaged son won't sleep well if he indulges in a violent video game right before bedtime may be fretting needlessly." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97640.html By The Adventist Review 4/16/2010 "A visit to your local college or university campus is likely to reveal that a revolution has taken place. On many campuses, young women now outnumber young men, and a gender gap of momentous importance is staring us in the face." Read the entire article: http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=3273 By New York Times 4/12/2010 "...“I am concerned that male-averse attitudes are widespread in the United States and that masculinity is becoming politically incorrect,” said Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men.”..." Read the entire article: http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/feminism-vs-male-studies/ By Robert Frankling, Esq. -- (blog) GlennSacks.com 4/13/2010 "...And as usual at publications with a particularly anti-male bias, that's what passes for "journalism." They simply quote another article that makes no secret of its anti-Male Studies bias, don't lift a finger to find out what Male Studies proponents have to say about the discipline and make no effort to write a balanced article on the subject. ..." Read the entire article: http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=4730 By Miami Herald 4/17/2010 "One of President Obama's consistent education themes has been the wish that every child cross paths with that one teacher who hits the light switch and changes one's life." By KTLA.com 4/14/2010 "...."The nude photographs were being sent by the victims voluntarily to their friends," according to Arden Wiltshire, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-yucaipa-sexting,0,314120.story By FoxNews.com 4/14/2010 "The young woman accusing Seagal of sex abuse once said she uses her sex appeal to get any girl she wanted and trick men." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/04/14/steven-seagal-accuser-boasted-manipulate-men/?test=latestnews "The Maine Human Rights Commissions taking heat over a proposal to ban schools from enforcing gender divisions in sports teams, school organizations, bathrooms and locker rooms, saying forcing a student into a particular room or group because of their biological gender amounts to discrimination." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/08/maine-commission-moves-ban-gender-specific-school-bathrooms-teams/ By CNN.com 4/12/2010 "...Former middle school math teacher Stephanie Ragusa was teary-eyed Monday as she pleaded guilty to having sex with two underage students. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/12/florida.teacher.student.sex/index.html By KTLA.COM 3/31/2010 "Famed math teacher, and subject of 1988 film 'Stand and Deliver,' Jaime Escalante, has died." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-jaime-escalante-cancer,0,3839418.story By Yahoo News 4/6/2010 "...In Japan, kodokushi, a phenomenon first described in the 1980s, has become hauntingly common. In 2008 in Tokyo, more than 2,200 people over 65 died lonely deaths, according to statistics from the city's Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health. The deaths most often involve men in their 50s and the nation's rapidly increasingly elderly population. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100406/wl_time/08599197695200 By Katherine Mangu-Ward -- Reason Magazine May 2010 Issue "...Rhee immediately told the D.C. mayor, “You don’t want me for this job.” With a bluntness for which she would later become famous, she explained, “If I were to take over the school district, the kinds of things that I would have to do to transform the district”—closing schools, firing teachers—“would just cause you headaches, political headaches. ..." Read the entire article: http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/07/last-chance-for-school-reform By Medline Plus -- Winter 2010 Issue: Volume 5 Number 1 Page 7 "...College students share many of the risk factors and warning signs for suicide seen among the general population. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/winter10/articles/winter10pg7.html By Medline Plus 4/2/2010 "If you're unhappy in life, you're unlikely to find satisfaction at work, say researchers who reviewed the findings of 223 studies conducted between 1967 and 2008." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97164.html By BBC News – United Kingdom 4/6/2010 "...The results of the survey of 1,000 parents suggest around 6% of fathers, or 600,000 men, are now their child's primary carer, up from 60,000 in 2000. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8605824.stm By FoxNews.com 4/9/2010 "Teachers of controversial sexual education program could face charges under new law." Watch the video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4142737/criminal-charges-for-teaching-sex-ed/?playlist_id=87249 By KTLA.com 3/31/2010 "Two female teachers from James Madison High School in Brooklyn are being charged with misconduct after allegedly being caught naked together in a classroom." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-lesbian-teachers,0,4379659.story By Medline Plus 3/25/2010 "...Children living in homes where at least one parent is jobless potentially face a range of emotional issues -- from stress and depression to poor school performance and behavioral problems. What's more, the lower standard of living and loss of health insurance often lead to poor health for many of these children, experts said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96845.html By ABC News 3/27/2010 "...In an election policy, they have proposed 3,000 scholarships worth $5,000 a year for students who agree to teach in public schools. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/27/2857750.htm By South Bend Tribune.com - Indiana 3/27/2010 "...According to court records, Chambers told police he was behind in his child support from being unemployed before being hired as the store manager in 2007. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20100327/News01/100329501/-1/XML By Medline Plus 3/26/2010 "...Poor organization in a classroom or disruptive classmates could cause attention problems instead, they suggested. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96914.html By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 3/30/2010 "...One would think the Obama administration and Congress would take a long, sober look at Head Start; These are damning findings for a program that has been "tweaked" for 45 years at a cumulative cost of some $167 billion. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/30/wetzstein-is-head-start-a-sacred-cow/ By FayObserver.com – North Carolina 3/29/2010 "...Children from a fatherless home are five times more likely to commit suicide; 32 times more likely to run away; 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders; 14 times more likely to commit rape; nine times more likely to drop out of school; 10 times more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol; and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fayobserver.com/Articles/2010/03/29/986549 By The Independent Women's Forum 3/30/2010 "In Sunday's New York Times, Nicholas Kristof writes about Richard Whitmire’s new book “Why Boys Fail,” which, yet again, produces evidence that boys are falling behind girls in school." Read the entire article: http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/show/22818.html By Nicholas D. Kristof 3/27/2010 "...Yet these days, the opposite problem has sneaked up on us: In the United States and other Western countries alike, it is mostly boys who are faltering in school. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28kristof.html By KTLA.com 3/31/2010 "A 21-year-old student at Yale University plunged to his death in an apparent suicide jump off the Empire State Building during the evening rush hour." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-ny-empire-state-suicide,0,7985478.story By CNN 1/21/2010 "...“We have talked so much about equal education for men and women in the past decades,” says Sun Yunxiao, author of the book and a professor at China's Teenager Research Center, “but we neglected the fact that boys and girls should be educated differently at school.”..." By ABC News 3/25/2010 "...Principals across Australia have voiced their opposition to the website in a survey conducted by the Australian Education Union, which found more than 80 per cent did not think the site gave an accurate description of their school. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/25/2855409.htm By Huffington Post 3/25/2010 "...Another spokesperson for unfair treatment to men is Dr. Gordon Finley a psychology professor from Florida. He feels that the Obama administration has bypassed boys and men. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-blumenfield-md/why-would-anyone-protest_b_512080.html By Phyllis Schlafly - World Net Daily 3/10/2010 "Far more personal information on students than is necessary is being collected by public schools, according to the Fordham Law School Center on Law and Information Policy, which investigated education records in all 50 states. States are failing to safeguard students' privacy and protect them from data misuse." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127471 By New York Times 3/7/2010 "Seeking to step up enforcement of civil rights laws, the federal Department of Education says it will be sending letters in coming weeks to thousands of school districts and colleges, outlining their responsibilities on issues of fairness and equal opportunity." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/education/08educ.html?scp=14&sq=sam%20dillon&st=cse By FoxNews.com 3/19/2010 "The competence of diligent dads helping out at home is damaging the self-esteem of "super-moms" who feel caught between work and traditional child-rearing roles, according to a new study revealed by LiveScience." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589645,00.html By Chicago Tribune 3/5/2010 "The entire senior class at Chicago's only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/happynews/chi-100305chicago-charter-school-graduates,0,2406746.story By FoxNews.com 3/17/2010 "Parents in the nation’s capital can add scarlet fever to the list of illnesses they have to worry about their kids coming down with. Officials have confirmed three cases of the disease at Terrell Elementary school in Washington, D.C., MyFoxDC.com reported." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589587,00.html By CNN.com 3/18/2010 "A wave of suicides at Cornell University in the past two semesters is a "public health crisis," the school's mental health initiatives director said." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/18/cornell.suicides/index.html By Siskiyou Daily News - California 3/15/2010 "...Gary Sams, Regional Director of the SMRDCSS, stated at the meeting that he was making the request to reduce the Child Support Assistant II positions due to a number of factors, including the effects of the slowed economy on child support collections." Read the entire article: http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/news/x1526465147/Layoffs-approved-for-child-support-services By KTLA.com 3/16/2010 "A suburban school bus driver is accused of driving dozens of students home from school with a high blood alcohol level." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-bus-driver-dui,0,3756387.story By Jay Goltz -- New York Times 3/5/2010 "...I have learned the long, hard and frustrating way that as a manager you cannot make everyone happy. You can try, you can listen, you can solve some problems, you can try some more. Good management requires training, counseling and patience, but there comes a point when you are robbing the business of precious time and energy. ..." Read the entire article: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/the-secret-to-having-happy-employees/?src=me&ref=business By FoxNews.com 3/12/2010 "..."The question is whether or not a very top-heavy organization might be siphoning off federal dollars that should be going to help kids," said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/12/gop-senators-question-m-salary-boys-girls-club-ceo/ By Washington Post 3/12/2010 "...Opponents argue that increases in child support payments are ill-advised because so many people face financial struggles in the recession. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031103922.html By Christian Science Monitor 3/11/2010 "It’s the end of the road for nearly half the schools in Kansas City, Mo. – a district that has struggled for decades to integrate and boost achievement amid plummeting enrollments." Read the entire article: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2010/0311/Kansas-City-to-close-26-schools.-Unprecedented-move-in-US By MSNBC.com 3/12/2010 "...Keith Bulluck, a 10-year NFL veteran, posted on Twitter that he’s “not saying it can’t be done or shouldn’t be done. Football is clearly a mans sport & it’s 2 be seen how young men take to their coach being a woman.”..." Read the entire article: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35839852/ns/sports-other_sports/ By New Zimbabwe.com "A BULAWAYO magistrate has ordered a father to pay maintenance to his 20-year-old daughter in what is believed to be a landmark case." Read the entire article: http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-1994-Woman,+20,+wins+child+support+claim/news.aspx By FoxNews.com "Imagine getting a full salary and benefits for doing absolutely nothing. If you’re a teacher in the United States, you can – you just have to be accused of a crime. States all over the country dole out millions of taxpayer dollars every year to teachers who aren't even permitted to set foot in a classroom." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2010/02/23/teachers?slide=4 By TampaBayOnline 3/10/2010 "...A 14-year-old Tampa girl has gone well beyond that, missing 85 of 113 school days this year, and about 850 since kindergarten. Because of it, her mother, Charlotte Fair, 45, was put behind bars without bail more than a week ago. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/after-daughter-misses-half-the-school-year-lonely-mom-jailed-in-tampa/1078330 By Yahoo.com 3/2/2010 "What millions of students read about science and history could hinge Tuesday on a Republican primary in Texas for several seats on the state board of education, a panel whose decisions affect the content of textbooks sold nationwide." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_el_st_lo/us_texas_primary_education_5 By Yahoo.com 3/10/2010 "Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local systems in an attempt to raise student achievement nationwide." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_re_us/us_schools_standards By Center for Disease Control and Prevention "Youth who are threatened with or experience physical violence, or who are injured by peers report more suicidal thoughts and behavior than non-victimized youth, according to a study released in the July 19th online edition of the Journal of Pediatrics. " Read the entire article: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/peer_victimization.html By ScienceDaily.com 3/11/2010 "Parents of young boys may want to encourage moderation when it comes to their kids' video game habits. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, owning a video-game system may hamper academic development in some children." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100310162835.htm By ScienceDaily.com 3/10/2010 "Psychology researchers exploring relational aggression and victimisation in 11-13 year olds have found adolescent boys have a similar understanding and experience of 'mean' behaviours and 'bitchiness' as girls." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100302093342.htm By FoxNews.com 3/9/2010 "A teacher trying to park her SUV Tuesday backed through a large window and into a classroom at the suburban Detroit school where she taught, slighting injuring several preschool students, authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588571,00.html?test=latestnews By USA Today 3/9/2010 "A new Ohio State University custodial employee who received a bad job evaluation shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, officials said Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-09-ohio-state-shooting_N.htm?csp=34&utm_ By USA Today 3/9/2010 "Education historian Diane Ravitch can pinpoint the day when she realized public schools in the USA were racing down a perilous road, one that promised long-sought reforms but would never deliver — and probably make things worse." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-03-10-ravitchbook10_st_N.htm?csp=34&utm By KTLA.com 3/9/2010 " Burbank Unified School District teacher turned herself in Monday to face allegations she had sex with one of her students." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-burbank-teacher-sex,0,2936792.story By Sally Pipes -- Pacific Research Institute 3/5/2010 "For the first time ever, women outnumber men at all levels of higher education. More women than men apply, enroll, and graduate with bachelor’s and advanced degrees" Read the entire article: http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/publications/unraveling-the-achievement-gap-on-campus By American Heart Association -- News Release 3/2/2010 "Teaching college students — an understudied population for preventing weight gain — about societal issues related to food and agriculture may help them choose healthier diets, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s 2010 Conference on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism." Read the entire article: http://americanheart.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=974 By Wall Street Journal -- 3/5/2010 "The Obama administration picked 15 states and the District of Columbia as finalists in a heated competition for extra federal education funds to shake up underperforming schools." Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704187204575101553383922336.html By Bill Graves -- The Oregonian 3/2/2010 "Oregon has joined 16 other states on a quest to dramatically improve the completion rate of college students, more than half of whom drop out before earning degrees." Read the entire article: http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2010/03/oregon_college_students_crash.html By Stop Bullying Now "A lot of young people have a good idea of what bullying is because they see it every day! Bullying happens when someone hurts or scares another person on purpose and the person being bullied has a hard time defending himself or herself. Usually, bullying happens over and over." Read the entire article: http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/kids/what-is-bullying.aspx By KTLA.com 3/3/2010 "Six students at Stoneman Elementary School have been suspended after a fifth-grade girl allegedly brought a pot-laced dessert to school Monday and shared it with her friends." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fruity-pepples-pot,0,6936811.story By USA Today 3/4/2010 "Rowdy protesters blocked major gates at two California universities and smashed the windows of a car Thursday amid campus protests across the nation against deep cuts in education funding." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-03-04-university-protests_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29
By USA Today 2/27/2010 "When Utah state Sen. Chris Buttars unveiled a cost-cutting measure this month that would have made the high school senior year optional, perhaps no one in the state Capitol Building was more surprised than 18-year-old Jake Trimble, who already opted out of the second half of senior year just weeks earlier." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-02-25-senioryear25foronline_st_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By New York Times 2/21/2010 "...An online discussion of how economic changes may be affecting women's marriage prospects..." Read the online discussion: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/for-women-redefining-marriage-material/ By Don Peck -- Atlantic Magazine "The Great Recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably just beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. It will leave an indelible imprint on many blue-collar men. It could cripple marriage as an institution in many communities." Read the entire article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/03/how-a-new-jobless-era-will-transform-america/7919/ By FoxNews.com 2/26/2010 "Getting students to exercise more might not just address obesity issues but also improve their grades with a U.S. study finding physically fit students tend to score higher in tests than their less fit peers." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587462,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/26/2010 "..."I don't believe that at 11 years old a school should be promoting opposite sex matching," Everett said. "A tenth-grader matched with a sixth-grader? And the school is promoting it, and it's inappropriate."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587496,00.html Quincy area education, social services coalition focuses on fathers in 2010Friday, 26 February 2010
By Quincy Herald Whig - Illinois 2/20/2010 "The Area Planning Committee will highlight the importance of fathers in 2010 as a means to boost the family." Read the entire article: http://www.whig.com/story/news/apc-022110 By Las Vegas Sun - Nevada 2/25/2010 "By a 21-0 vote, the Senate approved a bill to get more major employers to electronically transfer to the state the child support payments withheld from their workers." Read the entire article: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb/25/senate-oks-bill-electronic-child-support-filing/ By Washington Informer – District of Columbia 2/25/2010 "The Alliance of Concerned Men, one of the city’s leading organizations focusing on problems facing young Black men recently held a roundtable discussion A National Roundtable and Town Hall Meeting on Fatherhood and Solutions to Youth Violence. Tyrone Parker, an activist with the D.C. Commission of Men and Boys hosted the meeting at the University of the District of Columbia and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder served as its keynote speaker." By USA Today 2/24/2010 "A gunman was walking through a middle school parking lot and taking shots at students with a hunting rifle as terrified teenagers ran for their lives. He had just wounded two students and seemed ready to unleash more violence when math teacher David Benke sprung into action." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-23-colorado-middle-school-shooting_N.htm?POE=click-refer By Danville News - Pennsylvania 2/22/2010 "...Randall Albertson, who owns Price’s Recycling Co. of Milton, said he was supposed to report to jail today for contempt of court since the state couldn’t account for $240 in child support payments he collected, under court order, from an employees’ paychecks. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_053194847.html By Columbus Dispatch - Ohio 2/21/2010 "As the recession drags on, record numbers of Ohio parents can't afford their court-ordered child-support payments. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/02/21/copy/child_support.ART_ART_02-21-10_A1_0SGLBA8.html?adsec=politics&sid=101 By Columbus Dispatch - Ohio 2/21/2010 "..."After taking out child support and insurance, I was left with next to nothing," he said. "I mean, I was lucky to have $80 or $90 every two weeks for my personal self -- and that's for everything."... Read the entire article: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/02/21/Child_Support_Blues_print_ve.ART_ART_02-21-10_A4_0SGLBHF.html?sid=101 By Morganton News Herald – North Carolina 2/18/2010 "With the national unemployment rate more than 10 percent, a nationwide trend of missed child support payments or requests for reduced payments hits close to home." Read the entire article: http://www2.morganton.com/content/2010/feb/18/child-support-woes/ By ABC News -- 2/19/2010 "Two teenagers have been involved in a knife fight at a Brisbane high school, just days after a 12-year-old boy was killed by a fellow student." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/18/2824102.htm By Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. 2/17/2010 "...For most men, there are no pluses, as the social attitudes accompanying this social revolution have depreciated, demeaned and denigrated them. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/17/equal-opportunity-better-than-ardent-feminism/ By Suzanne Fields -- Washington Times 2/11/2010 "Men are marrying up. Increasing numbers of men are marrying women with more education and a bigger paycheck than they have." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/11/the-sexual-devolution/ By David Brooks -- New York Times 2/15/2010 "...The biggest impact is on men. Over the past few decades, men have lagged behind women in acquiring education and skills. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at age 22, 185 women have graduated from college for every 100 men who have done so. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/opinion/16brooks.html By Las Vegas Sun 2/8/2010 "A man who once earned between $500,000 and $4 million a year in the stock market should have a chance to get his child support payments reduced now that the economy has soured and his earnings have declined, a court has ruled." Read the entire article: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb/08/court-man-should-get-chance-lowered-child-support/ By IndyStar.com 2/19/2010 "A female Pike High School assistant teacher was being held Thursday, accused of engaging in sex acts with a 17-year-old male student." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201002190305/NEWS02/2190349 By Yahoo News 2/17/2010 "..."We could tell something was off, that she was not like other teachers," said nursing student Caitlin Phillips, who was among those who complained to administrators at least three times a year ago that the biology professor was unsettling and ineffective in the classroom. Some students also signed a petition against Bishop. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100217/ap_on_re_us/us_ala_university_shooting By ABC News 2/15/2010 "...It is the second stabbing involving students at a Catholic boys' schools in Brisbane in the past 10 days. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/15/2819929.htm By USA Today 2/12/2010 "...Three others were wounded in the incident Friday — a rare instance of a woman being accused in a mass shooting. Amy Bishop, 42, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist who became an assistant professor at the school in 2003, has been charged with capital murder. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-12-alabama-university-shooting_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By WBUR.org 2/9/2010 "..As Rich put it, "When you are hypervigilant or jumpy, or always on guard, you can go from 0 to 60 in a very short time. So a young person who is on the bus, somebody steps on his foot and suddenly somebody gets stabbed or shot."..." Read the entire article: http://www.wbur.org/npr/122791527 By Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D -- The Reality Check 2/3/2010 "...Second, President Obama established the first cabinet level White House Council on Women and Girls. However, all sound social and economic science data argues for the need for a White House Council on Boys and Men. Specifically, boys and men are falling behind at all levels of education from elementary to graduate and professional schools. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.therealitycheck.org/?p=11092 By ScienceDaily.com 1/20/2010 "Reasons for requiring a child to repeat the first grade may go far beyond the basic "three R's," reveals a study by two Texas A&M University education psychologists." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100113191449.htm By Kingsville Record - Texas 2/10/2010 "...By deducting child support from employee paychecks, Texas employers play a key role in improving the economic security of children who rely on child support to cover many of their basic needs. ..." Read the entire article: http://kingsvillerecord.our-hometown.com/news/2010-02-10/Editorial/THANK_YOU_TEXAS_EMPLOYERS.html By Forbes.com 2/11/2010 "Over the past decade the National Science Foundation has funneled $135 million into a "gender bias program" called Advance." Read the entire article: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0301/opinions-women-national-science-foundation-on-my-mind.html By MedlinePlus 2/9/2010 "Workers with depression stay home sick more often than healthy colleagues, even when their disease is treated, according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95095.html By CBS News 2/8/2010 "Calgary's Catholic school board is considering setting up all-boys schools, while the public board – concerned about boys' performances in the classrooms – is researching the issue." By USA Today 2/9/10 "The principal and assistant principal of Inskip Elementary School here were shot Tuesday, and a suspect was taken into custody." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-10-tenn-principals-shot_N.htm?POE=click-refer By ScienceDaily.com 1/31/2010 "Boys face high rates of a variety of mental health issues, in addition to lagging behind girls in academic performance and college attendance, according to two new papers by University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Judith Kleinfeld." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126091733.htm By Mirror.co.uk – United Kingdom 2/2/2010 "Student dads who do not financially support their children could begin to pay child maintenance, the Government has signalled." Read the entire article: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/02/02/lessons-in-life-115875-22012416/ By Open Market.com - USA 2/2/2010 "Virginia legislators recently killed bills to extend child support to adult college students." Read the entire article: http://www.openmarket.org/2010/02/02/virginia-legislators-kill-bills-to-mandate-child-support-for-adult-college-students/ By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "A student in New Zealand has auctioned her virginity to a stranger for almost $31,900 to help fund her university tuition fees." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584674,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "...In the United States, 10 to 13 percent of school-age kids experience some form of rejection by their peers. In addition to causing mental health problems, bullying and social isolation can increase the likelihood a child will get poor grades, drop out of school, or develop substance abuse problems, the researchers say. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584671,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "The mother of a 6-year-old whose mouth was taped shut by a school secretary is suing the school system." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584679,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.236636:b30221322:z0 By MSNBC.com 2/3/2010 "More than 100 students were suspended last month at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Conn. They weren’t bullies. They weren’t cheating. They weren’t caught smoking in the bathrooms. They had cell phones." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35063840/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/ By USA Today 2/3/2010 "The expulsion of a high school basketball player who posted angry messages on Facebook highlights a growing debate over students' privacy and free-speech rights online." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-02-facebook-threat_N.htm?POE=click-refer Florida Student Reportedly Kicked Out of Honor Society Over Facebook PageThursday, 04 February 2010
By FoxNews.com 2/4/2010 "One of the nation's oldest and highest scholastic honors organizations is looking into a Tampa-area high school student's claim that he was booted from the local chapter because of comments he posted on a Facebook page." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584786,00.html By MedlinePlus 2/1/2010 "Fewer than one in four U.S. parents give their local secondary schools an "A" grade for how they deal with students who have behavioral, emotional or family problems, a new survey shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94768.html By MedlinePlus 1/31/2010 "Fears about losing status at work and about confidentiality are among the main reasons that many American workers are more hesitant to seek treatment for mental health issues than for physical health problems, according to a national survey released this week by the American Psychiatric Association." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94755.html By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 1/31/2010 "...Not so long ago it would have been unthinkable, but one woman in five now earns more than her husband or boyfriend. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fmwf.com/media-type/news/2010/01/rise-of-female-breadwinners-as-one-in-five-women-earn-more-than-their-partner/ By ScienceDaily.com 1/26/2010 "Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math, research at the University of Chicago shows." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125172940.htm By Yahoo News 1/28/2010 "College and university endowments suffered huge losses in the fiscal year that ended last June, a new report finds, but stronger investment returns in recent months point to a rebound." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_re_us/us_college_endowments By MedlinePlus 1/27/2010 "Most "Type A" personality traits, such as aggression and competitiveness, boost work stress, but there's one characteristic that actually reduces stress, according to Finnish researchers." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94604.html By Atlanta Journal Constitution 1/27/2010 "...National statistics show that fewer than 41 percent of black males graduate from high school, and fewer than 4 percent attend college. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/jobless-black-men-are-285227.html By WSAZ-TV – West Virginia 1/28/2010 "...Each inmate is required to have a job, help out around the facility, pay court costs, child support and put money away for their release. They are randomly drug tested and checked on at work. They are allowed two two-hour passes a week to do things like go to the bank and get hair cuts. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/82843807.html By ABC New Australia 1/27/2010 "Education Minister Julia Gillard says the technical problems which plagued the Government's new school ratings website this morning prove that there is huge demand for the information it contains." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/28/2803136.htm By News-Leader.com - Missouri 1/19/2010 "...In addition, men have been disproportionately hit by the downturn's impact on industries like manufacturing and construction. That's critical because nearly 83 percent of custodial parents are women, leaving men to pay most child support obligations. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100119/LIFE04/1190304/Job+loss+hinders+child+support+payments By Huffington Post 1/19/2010 "Historically, marriage was the surest route to financial security for women. Nowadays it's men who are increasingly getting the biggest economic boost from tying the knot, according to a new analysis of census data." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/19/more-men-get-an-economic_n_427863.html By Phyllis Schlafly -- Eagle Forum 1/22/2010 "Let me share with you an interesting article from the Washington Post about the teacher of an all-black class in a high school in Alexandria, Virginia, who expressed his frustration at how poorly the students were performing. The class included both native-born African-Americans and kids who had immigrated from Africa." Read the entire article: http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2010/jan10/10-01-22.html By ScienceDaily.com 1/24/2010 "Computer games have a broad appeal that transcends gender, culture, age and socio-economic status. Now, computer scientists in the US think that creating computer games, rather than just playing them could boost students' critical and creative thinking skills as well as broaden their participation in computing." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121101124.htm By Richard Fry and D’Vera Cohn -- Pew Research Center – USA "The institution of marriage has undergone significant changes in recent decades as women have outpaced men in education and earnings growth." Read the entire article: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1466/economics-marriage-rise-of-wives?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress By ABC News - Idaho 1/19/2010 "High unemployment caused by the recession has created unprecedented need statewide for food stamp aid and other public assistance programs, the chief of Idaho's Department of Health and Welfare said Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9604333 By Suburban News – New Jersey 1/15/2010 "...The New Jersey Physicians Advisory Group, based in Union County, has been working with teens through school curricula and with adults by providing conferences, workshops and educational resources to school educators, health professionals and parents throughout the state. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/suburbannews/index.ssf/2010/01/union_county-based_physicians.html By AJ MAZZOLINI -- The Missoulian 1/19/2010 "...The time to do something about graduation rates is now, said University of Montana President George Dennison. Out of all the students who start school, close to 25 percent drop out before getting a diploma, he said. If this trend continues, the future could be in trouble, he said. Fewer and fewer students make education a priority, he said, something that's led to a much lower number of high school and college graduates in the United States in recent years. ..." Read the entire article: By Washington Times 1/18/2010 "It's fun and challenging to dream up survival gear to issue to your son: the best-ever hunting knife, a surefire fishing lure. Forget it. None of these will do him any good in his biggest survival challenge - getting through school." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/18/boys-in-school-arent-out-of-the-woods/ By Washington Post 1/20/2010 "District and Virginia officials formally made their case for more than $450 million in federal education funds Tuesday, asserting in sometimes-glowing terms that their reform efforts to date make them deserving of money from President Obama's Race to the Top initiative to overhaul public schools." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/19/AR2010011901642.html?hpid=topnews By St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri 1/14/2010 "...Decades of social science research now tell us that a father's sustained, committed involvement with his children and presence in the home matter more than we ever imagined. On nearly every measure available — from health and financial stability to rates of graduation, substance abuse and teen pregnancy — children raised by their married mothers and fathers fare better than those raised in other types of families. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/story/D0853BEA7C207945862576AA007ECDF1?OpenDocument By WorldNetDaily.com 1/14/2010 "In a statement that reflects widespread trust by lawmakers in homeschoolers, the New Hampshire House of Representatives today resoundingly rejected a proposal that would have imposed draconian new regulations on the students and their parents." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=121880 By NY Daily News 1/12/2010 "A case that bitterly divided the parents and fiancée of a firefighter killed on 9/11 has finally ended with a Brooklyn judge's decision that she will get half his pension for the rest of her life." By FoxNews.com 1/15/2010 "A 16-year-old student has been arrested for allegedly wounding the principal with a knife at a Catholic high school in Los Angeles County." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583153,00.html?test=latestnews By FoxNews.com 1/13/2010 "Parents, teachers and activists began sounding off Wednesday on how history — topics from the fall of the Roman Empire to Texas cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash — will be taught to millions of Texas children for the next decade." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582923,00.html By FoxNews.com 1/13/2010 "Police in Illinois say an officer assigned to a junior high school has been placed on administrative leave after he allegedly shocked three boys during an unauthorized Taser demonstration." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583025,00.html By MSNBC.com 1/15/2010 "The number of working moms who are the sole breadwinners in their families rose last year to an all-time high, and the number of stay-at-home dads edged higher, in a shift of traditional gender roles caused partly by massive job losses." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34880372/ns/business-careers/ By Reuters - California 1/12/2010 "...If federal money fails to materialize, the governor's plan would trigger deeper cuts that would dismantle entire programs, including the state's welfare-to-work system, CalWorks. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60B0CJ20100112 By Land Line Magazine - Missouri 1/12/2010 "...Besides losing their jobs and having numerous paychecks bounce, some Arrow drivers claimed that while the company deducted child support payments from their checks, the money was not forwarded on to the state agency in charge of disbursing the funds to the children and families. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2010/Jan10/011110/011210-01.htm By Coleen O'Conner -- The Denver Post 12/7/2009 "When Ann Moore read "Cowboy Ethics," a book about what Wall Street bankers can learn from the Old West, she instantly identified it as the perfect teaching tool for her at-risk class of seniors at Cherry Creek High School, where half the kids had learning disabilities and one-third spoke English as a second language." Read the entire article: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13941996?source=email#ixzz0cSfBgwnL
By Katherine Kersten -- Star Tribune.com 12/2/2009 "...In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U's College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of "the American Dream" in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/70662162.html?page=1&c=y By ABC News 1/7/2010 "Australia's High Commissioner to India, Peter Varghese, says race might have played a role in some of the violent attacks against Indian students that have threatened ties between the two countries." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/07/2786997.htm By YahooNews 7/2/2009 "Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate climbed to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Workers also saw weekly wages fall, suggesting Americans will have little appetite to spend and the economy's road to recovery will be bumpy." Read the entire article: By Bermuda Sun - Bermuda 12/18/2009 "A commonly cited problem faced by many parents (primarily fathers) who fail to fulfill this obligation is that they are often incarcerated, lose their job and consequently lose their ability to pay child support." Read the entire article: http://www.bermudasun.bm/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=135&ArticleID=43928 By KOAT.com – New Mexico 12/22/2009 "Douglas Miller said he jumped through hoops to make child support payments for his daughter." Read the entire article: http://www.koat.com/news/22032370/detail.html By FoxNews.com 12/16/2009 "A Massachusetts father is standing by claims that his 8-year-old son was sent home from school after the boy drew a stick figure of Jesus on a crucifix." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580282,00.html By ABC News -- Australia 12/16/2009 "Parents are paying for essential educational resources, including teaching positions, in many public primary and secondary schools, a survey by the Federation of Parents and Citizens groups across New South Wales has found." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/16/2772922.htm By Danville News - Pennsylvania 12/11/2009 "Getting parents to pay child support at a time when many Valley residents are losing employment is a tough job." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_345205845.html By YahooNews 12/15/2009 "...In the geeky environment, women were significantly less interested than men in computer science, while there was no gender difference for the non-stereotypical classroom. Female students in the stereotypical environment said they felt less similar to computer-science majors than did those in the classroom that wasn't geeked out. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091215/sc_livescience/geeksdrivegirlsoutofcomputerscience By WorldNetDaily 12/11/2009 "An international human-rights organization today announced it will pursue a civil lawsuit on behalf of parents who want to control their children's education and withhold them from explicit sex-education and playacting classes required by the German government." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=118635 By Telegraph.co.uk 12/12/2009 "A 12-year-old pupil at a Liverpool school where fatty drinks and snacks are banned has been suspended for ''crisp dealing'', it is reported." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6796423/Schoolboy-12-suspended-for-crisp-dealing.html By ScienceDaily.com 12/14/2009 "The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But according to a University of Illinois expert in media literacy, not only are critics who argue that texting is synonymous with literary degradation wrong, they also often overlook the bigger role that texting and its distant cousin, "tweeting," could play in education and research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091210162224.htm By New York Times 12/15/2009 "More than half of the nation’s unemployed workers have borrowed money from friends or relatives since losing their jobs. An equal number have cut back on doctor visits or medical treatments because they are out of work. Almost half have suffered from depression or anxiety. About 4 in 10 parents have noticed behavioral changes in their children that they attribute to their difficulties in finding work." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/us/15poll.html?_r=2&th&emc=th By Jacques Steinberg -- New York Times/Education 12/2/2009 "On Oct. 23, The Choice published a post by Cate Doty that noted, “For every 100 American women enrolled in college, there are only 77 men. And for every 100 women who graduate with a bachelor’s degree, only 73 men accomplish that.” Read the entire article: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/postscript-gender/?scp=5&sq=boys%20and%20schools&st=cse By Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wisconsin 12/9/2009 "A proposal to distribute condoms to some high school students was approved by a MPS committee this week. The plan will have to pass the entire School Board for approval." Read the entire article: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/78928697.html By Wall Street Journal 11/27/2009 "...The unemployment rate for men, 11.4%, based on seasonally adjusted data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, outpaces the rate for women, 8.8%. We now have the largest jobless gender gap since tracking became possible in 1948. ..." Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574531453974382142.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
"The MENS society has been officially recognised by the University of Manchester Students’ Union, following a change of name as requested by the union." Read the entire article: http://www.student-direct.co.uk/2009/11/mens-society-becomes-official-union-society/ By WFTV.com9 – Florida 11/9/2009 "Eyewitness News found a local teacher who's only bringing home around $50 per week. A family court child support decision left him struggling to live and Eyewitness News found out it is not an isolated case." Read the entire article: http://www.wftv.com/news/21564032/detail.html By Houston Chronicle 12/7/2009 "As far as Hugh E. McGee III was concerned, the “tipping point” was yet one more innocuous Kinkaid School tradition that the politically correct crowd didn't get. It was nothing more than harmless fun, a simple case of boys being boys — or in this case, boys being girls — until the oversensitive liberals stepped in and ruined it for everybody." Read the entire article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6756272.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fmetro+%28chron.com+-+Houston+%26+Texas%29 By Boston Globe - Massachusetts 12/2/2009 "...There is a problem, though. For a dad to be involved, it takes a mom to be inclusive. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/community/moms/blogs/child_caring/2009/12/benefits_of_fat.html By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Mens News Daily 12/2/2009 "John Nelson went from six-figure-earning software exectutive to unemployed overnight. But his $2,200 child support payment didn't change that quickly. It took a year for him to get a hearing, and when he finally did, the judge increased his obligation." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/12/02/family-attorney-marsha-freeman-the-system-is-broken/ By WTHR.com 11/24/2009 "It's a disturbing game with devastating consequences, and a new WTHR survey new WTHR survey suggests it is rampant in Indiana schools. "Ball tapping" is the act of intentionally hitting or kicking a male in the genitals." Read the entire article: http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=11568681 By KAMR - Texas 12/1/2009 "The Obama Administration is holding a series of forums this fall about fatherhood and the roll that dad can play within the school." Read the entire article: http://myhighplains.com/content/fulltext/?cid=96292 By Cambridge News "A SCHOOLGIRL who accused six teens of gang rape after a school prom has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice." Read the entire article: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/displayarticle.asp?id=453428
NYC Children Arrested for Allegedly Bringing Box Cutter, Knife to SchoolWednesday, 02 December 2009
By Fox News 11/27/2009 " Two 3rd grade boys and a 5th grader have been arrested on charges they brought a box cutter and a knife to a Bronx school." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,577031,00.html By The Frisky 11/29/2009 "Most colleges these days have a women’s group and lots of colleges have a Women’s Studies, or even better, a Gender & Sexuality Studies program. But recently, male students at Oxford University and Manchester University in the U.K. have started their very own “men’s groups” to work through their issues with the current state of dude-dom. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-young-men-at-oxford-university-start-their-own-masculinity-club/ By Guardian.co.uk 11/24/2009 "I realise I am walking willingly into the snares of the toxic sisterhood by admitting this, but as a woman (and elected students' union officer) I think the new crop of male-specific support groups that are springing up across universities is actually a pretty good sign." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/24/mens-groups-students-gender The Birmingham News - al.com - Alabama 11/24/2009 "...Ron Burt, project director for the program that serves people in the Bessemer Cutoff, said more than half of the participants in the fathering court program faced jail time for failure to pay child support. Burt said some are quick to label the men in the program "deadbeat dads," but that it is usually a lack of work or low-paying jobs that has caused them to fall behind." Read the entire article: http://blog.al.com/birmingham-news-stories/2009/11/bessemer_court_program_helps_m.html By The Washington Post 11/21/2009 "...If we are to prevent the achievement gap and develop a cradle-to-career educational pipeline, early learning programs are going to have to be better integrated with the K-12 system," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday at a convention of the nation's largest early childhood organization, the National Association for the Education of Young Children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112002391.html?hpid=sec-education By New York Times 11/22/2009 "...President Obama will announce a campaign Monday to enlist companies and nonprofit groups to spend money, time and volunteer effort to encourage students, especially in middle and high school, to pursue science, technology, engineering and math, officials say. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/science/23educ.html?bl By New York Times - New York 11/17/2009 "...It is filled with tales of women who were the primary earners in a marriage, and who watched their husbands gain primary physical custody of their children when the marriage ended. ..." Read the entire article: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/more-fathers-getting-custody-in-divorce/ By YahooNews 11/19/2009 "...The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/us_california_university_fees By Des Moines Register 11/15/2009 "Greg Geist of Carroll says the Iowa Department of Human Services wrongly placed him on the state's child abuse registry. And an administrative law judge with the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals agrees. In a ruling this summer, the judge reversed and "found to be incorrect" a social worker's finding that Geist sexually abused a 15-year-old boy." Read the entire article: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091115/OPINION03/911150317/1110/A-year-shattered-by-sex-abuse-allegations By ScienceDaily.com 11/15/2009 "'What is very striking,' says Professor Croll, 'is that for this generation there is absolutely no gender stereotyping in hopes for the future. Furthermore, what children say at the age of 11 about school participation after the age of 16 is highly predictive of their actual behaviour.'..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091115123711.htm By CNN.com 11/17/2009 "A suburban Atlanta high school teacher has been accused of pursuing a "hit" on a 16-year-old student last month, and the case is under investigation by local authorities." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/17/teacher.hit.man/index.html?eref=rss_crime&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_crime+%28RSS%3A+Crime%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo By USA Today 11/17/2009 "...Still, another jump in suicide figures for 2009 would make it the fifth straight year that such deaths have set a record as troops continue to come under the stress of two overseas wars. It compares with 140 in 2008, 115 in 2007 and 102 in 2006. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-11-17-army-suicides-rise_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By MSNBC.com 11/12/2009 "...Across the country, droves of people like Lackey are unable to find teaching jobs, in large part because the economy is forcing school systems to slash positions. The teacher shortage that many feared just a few years ago has turned into a teacher glut. ... Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33892103/ns/business-careers/ By K-State Collegian 11/9/2009 "...According to the Department of Labor statistics, over the past couple years, women’s wages rose 3.2 percent and men’s only rose 2 percent, both with inflation. In the median quarterly earning in the third quarter of 2009, minority women earned more than men; black women earned a 7.3-percent increase, Hispanic women earned a 5.5-percent increase and Asian women had a 1.8-percent increase. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.kstatecollegian.com/news/women-s-wages-increasing-more-than-men-s-1.2057862#5 By New York Times 11/11/2009 "Congress took a reasonable step in 1994 when it required states receiving federal education money to expel students who brought guns onto school property, but states and localities overreacted, as they so often do. They enacted “zero tolerance” policies under which children are sometimes arrested for profanity, talking back, shoving matches and other behavior that would once have been resolved with detention or meetings with the students’ parents." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/opinion/11wed2.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
By Sam Dillon -- New York Times 10/8/2009 "On any given day, about one in every 10 young male high school dropouts is in jail or juvenile detention, compared with one in 35 young male high school graduates, according to a new study of the effects of dropping out of school in an America where demand for low-skill workers is plunging." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/education/09dropout.html?fta=y By WESH.com - Florida 11/7/2009 "...Rodriguez was divorced twice and owed child support to two former wives that he couldn't pay. One friend said Rodriguez became more and more bitter about being unable to find another engineering job, about having to move back in with his mother and about making around $20,000 a year working at Subway. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wesh.com/news/21549316/detail.html By USA Today 11/8/2009 "The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is "very mentally ill" and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-06-orlando-shots-office_N.htm?POE=click-refer By Examiner.com - USA 11/4/2009 "...Since being laid off, Dave had sent out hundreds of resumes and not one single interview. It wasn't Dave’s fault yet the child support bureau suspended his license and he was being hauled into court. Dave was now a criminal and said he would start robbing people to avoid going to jail. After that the child support bureaucracy started taking child support from Dave’s unemployment and he and his family lost their home. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-16500-Lake-County-Independent-Examiner~y2009m11d4-Economic-crisis-turning-dads-into-criminals By Drew Zahn -- WorldNetDaily 11/3/2009 "A college professor in Georgia is whirling in confusion right now, reprimanded and apparently threatened with termination without any specific charges, hearings or evidence of wrongdoing -- only the school administration's allegation that he "offended" someone." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114935
By USA Today 10/31/2009 "A record high of about 11.5 million Americans age 18 to 24, or nearly 40%, attended college in October 2008, according to a study of Census data released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. Virtually all the increase of 300,000 students over the previous year came at two-year schools, while attendance at four-year schools remained flat." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-10-30-college-enrollment_N.htm?POE=click-refer By Monroe News Star - Louisiana 10/31/2009 "Richard King, 36, of 1316 Keystone Road, Monroe, was accused of forging time sheets at a temporary employment agency. Monroe police charged King with felony theft, arrested him and booked him at Ouachita Correctional Center, where he remained on a $5,000 Saturday." Read the entire article: http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20091031/UPDATES01/91031010 By FoxNews.com 10/28/2009 "A new study on job authority and health suggests that the top is not only lonely, but can also take a toll on physical and mental well-being. Using data from 1,800 U.S. workers, researchers found that the negative aspects of having a power position at work seemed to cancel out the positive aspects when it came to people's physical and psychological health." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569968,00.html By Simon Perry -- People.com 10/25/2009 "British singer Leona Lewis has reacted with dismay to some of the media chatter about the fact that she is still dating the same boyfriend she had before she found fame." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20315285,00.html By The Associated Press - USA 10/23/2009 "The doctor being investigated in Michael Jackson's death told a court he can't afford to pay $13,000 in child support and other debts because he was forced to close his medical practice after physical threats against him and his staff, according to court documents obtained Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvcLH28ub3AyGjplQ256FNiOT6CQD9BGVERG0 By KTLA.com 10/29/2009 "... Evans responded to his client's dismissal by writing on Thursday, "The termination of Mr. Kronk relates to a difference of opinion between Mr. Kronk and Orange County regarding a workplace injury sustained by Mr. Kronk in the course of his job duties at an Orange County Utilities warehouse. This dispute arose because Mr. Kronk's management directed him to resume work duties after his injury, and Mr. Kronk and his health care providers did not consider it to be safe or medically appropriate to resume those duties at this time. "..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-caylee-worker-fired,0,4640734.story By Providence Journal – Rhode Island 10/26/2009 "Greg Isaac, center, says he is doing his very best to pay his child support but is having trouble because of the bad economy and lack of jobs (he’s applied for over 50)." Read the entire article: http://www.projo.com/news/content/CHILD_SUPPORT_10-26-09_IOG52JP_v26.37ce26a.html
By Dailyrecord.com 10/25/2009 "From driving to shopping to eating out, the punishing economy is changing the way we live. Now, it seems, it's changing the way we divorce." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20091025/COMMUNITIES/91022070/1005/NEWS01 By Stuart Taylor -- National Journal Magazine 10/24/2009 "Women now claim more than 57 percent of all bachelor's degrees, 61 percent of all master's degrees, and half of all professional and doctoral degrees, according to Education Department data cited by University of Michigan economist Mark Perry and others. They also earn more Ph.D.s than men in the humanities, education, health sciences, and social sciences, in-cluding two-thirds of new psychology doctorates." Read the entire article: http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/openingargument.php By YahooNews 10/21/2009 "The Obama administration is calling for an overhaul of college programs that prepare teachers, saying they are cash cows that do a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the classroom." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091022/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_teachers By YahooFinance.com 10/21/2009 "The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show." Read the entire article: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/107985/womens-wages-outpaced-mens-during-recession?mod=career-salary_negotiation By CBS4.com 10/13/2009 "A 6-year-old Cub Scout recently suspended from school after bringing a camping utensil to the lunchroom made it clear he was not happy with the Delaware school district's decision. "I think it's very wrong. It's not fair at all," Zachary Christie of Newark, Del. told CBS' "The Early Show."..." Read the entire article: http://cbs4.com/national/delaware.boy.suspension.2.1244724.html By USAToday.com 10/19/9 "At a time when President Batrack Obama is pushing for more time in the classroom, his home state has created the nation's shortest school year under a new union contract that closes schools on most Fridays for the remainder of the academic calendar." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-10-19-hawaii-schools_N.htm By FoxNews.com 10/19/2009 "The parents of an Eagle Scout who was suspended from his upstate New York high school for a month over a 2-inch pocketknife he kept locked in his car have retained a lawyer to appeal their school district's zero-tolerance policies and demand that their son's record be cleared." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568572,00.html By CNN.com 10/17/2009 "An all-male college in Atlanta, Georgia, has banned the wearing of women's clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a new crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/17/college.dress.code/ By Mark Johnson of the Journal Sentinel 10/18/2009 "...In fact, Dad was leaving because Mom was sick. In March, he was laid off from his job as a raw materials coordinator for a plastics company called PolyOne, where he'd worked for 20 years. His severance package had provided several months' salary, but by August the paychecks were winding down. Soon the cost of his family health coverage was going to triple, then a few months after that, nearly triple again. They needed coverage so Mom could fight her cancer. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/64677772.html By WUSA9.com 10/14/2009 "...Thomas Gerrow, President of San Miguel, says the couple came here because they were interested to see a program that focuses on Latino children. "Latino males are the lowest graduation rate in the country. And our success so far have been superb in order to overcome those issues," Gerrow said." Read the entire article: http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=92386&provider=top By FoxNews.com 10/14/2009 "...Pressure is mounting on a Troy, N.Y., school board to overrule Matthew Whalen's suspension from Lansingburgh High School, which was issued because of a zero-tolerance policy that is facing increasing opposition from parents and education advocates. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,566182,00.html By FoxNews 10/12/2009 "Six-year-old Zachary Christie was so excited to become a Cub Scout that he brought his camping utensil to school. The tool serves as a spoon, a fork and a knife, and Zachary wanted to use it at lunch. What Zachary didn't know was that the gizmo violated his school's zero-tolerance policy on weapons." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,564605,00.html?test=latestnews By CNN.com 10/8/2009 "Stephan Mace of the Army's 61st Cavalry Regiment knew the Taliban would be waiting for him when he returned to eastern Afghanistan in September. During a two-week leave in early September, the 21-year-old specialist sat on his father's couch in Winchester, Virginia, and discussed his concerns over Forward Operating Base Keating in Kamdesh District, a region known as a Taliban stronghold." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/07/afghanistan.soldiers/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By ScienceDaily.com 10/2/2009 "Racial segregation in the schools is fueling the learning disparity between young black and white children, while out-of-school factors are more important to the growth of social class gaps, according to a study by Emory University sociologist Dennis Condron." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091002124741.htm By FoxNews 10/6/2009 "President Obama is pushing for more hours in school, but some of his staunchest supporters are moving in the other direction -- seeking to adopt four-day school weeks as a way to avoid pay cuts and firings in the face of crumbling state budgets." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/06/obama-adocates-longer-school-year-teachers-unions-push-shorter-weeks/ By CNN.com 10/5/2009 "...Boys were four times as likely as girls to have ASD, and non-Hispanic black and multiracial children were less likely than non-Hispanic white children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/05/autism.study/index.html By Faith Karimi -- CNN 10/5/2009 "William Kamkwamba dreamed of powering his village with the only resource that was freely available to him. His native Malawi had gone through one of its worst droughts seven years ago, killing thousands. His family and others were surviving on one meal a day. The red soil in his Masitala hometown was parched, leaving his father, a farmer, without any income." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/05/malawi.wind.boy/index.html
By Amanda MacMillan -- CNN Health 10/5/2009 "...Boys were at a higher risk of Internet addiction than girls, and those who used the Internet for more than 20 hours a week, every day, or for online gaming, were at higher risk as well. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/05/depression.adhd.internet.addiction/index.html By Mark Tutton -- For CNN 10/7/2009 "...Last week a 51-year old father of two jumped to his death from a bridge. He was reported to have left a letter blaming his death on the "atmosphere" at work, according to media reports. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/06/work.death/index.html?iref=werecommend
By CNN 10/6/2009 "The flag-draped coffins of five U.S. soldiers killed during a weekend onslaught against a U.S. military outpost in Afghanistan arrived Tuesday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the military said. The bodies include Sgt. Joshua J. Kirk of South Portland, Maine; Spc. Michael P. Scusa of Villas, New Jersey; Spc. Stephen L. Mace of Lovettsville, Virginia; Spc. Christopher T. Griffin of Kincheloe, Michigan; and Pfc. Kevin C. Thomson of Reno, Nevada, according to the Air Force mortuary affairs office." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/06/us.afghanistan.troops/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Elizabeth Landau -- CNN 10/7/2009 "...A study of more than 5,000 people in the United States aged 20 to 69 found that males were three times as likely to have noise-related hearing loss as women. The research was recently presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery in San Diego, California. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/07/hearing.loss.noise/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
By CNN 10/7/2009 "The National Organization for Women has sharply criticized comedian David Letterman, accusing him of promoting a hostile, uncomfortable work environment." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/07/letterman.now/index.html?eref=rss_topstories By DesMoinesRegister.com - Iowa 9/30/2009 "...A recent study by the National Principals Association said that 71 percent of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. I would guess that our local numbers are similar. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090930/OPINION04/909300342/-1/NEWS04 By Wavy.com 9/30/2009 "WAVY.com's investigation into a local contractor revealed a criminal history of bounced checks and bad business dealings. Now our ongoing investigation of Dan Robinson and RIDG Inc. revealed allegations of unpaid child support from one employee's paycheck, and that father says if he doesn't come up with money soon, he has to go to jail." Read the entire article: http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/local_wavy_virginiabeach_RIDG_Inc_child_support_accusations_20090930 By Atlanta Journal Constitution - Georgia 10/5/2009 "A Georgia woman is personally liable to seeking child support payments from former pro basketball player Jason Caffey after he had filed for bankruptcy protection." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-woman-must-repay-154645.html By Quad City Times - Iowa 10/5/2009 "Advocates are pushing for improvements to Iowa's child support policies, saying it can take too long to adjust the amount parents are ordered to pay. That delay is most apparent when a parent paying child support loses a job or faces another significant change in their financial circumstances, they say." Read the entire article: http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/article_ae367734-b160-11de-a2b4-001cc4c03286.html By Examiner.com - USA 10/3/2009 "In the Matter of Thomas B. v Lydia D. the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, ruled on Thursday, October 1, that parents in New York State cannot contract away their obligation to take care of their children until age twenty-one. The issue before the court was whether or not a child's full-time employment by itself constituted emancipation and therefore released the parents from child support obligations." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-14537-Albany-CPS-and-Family-Court-Examiner~y2009m10d3-Court-says-parents-in-New-York-cannot-contract-away-obligation-to-support-children-until-age-21 By ScienceDaily.com 10/1/2009 "Children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults, according to new research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091001081221.htm By The Washington Times 9/28/2009 "A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an "older man." At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama's "safe school czar." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/28/at-the-presidents-pleasure/?feat=home_top5_read By Yahoo News 9/27/2009 "Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way. Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_re_us/us_more_school By The Chattanoogan Opinion - Tennessee 9/28/2009 "I just learned one of my young male neighbors, presently unemployed, was recently jailed and is now serving 11/29 for non-payment of child-support. I guess I'm one of the few ones who scratch my head and could never understand the benefits to the child or children and society as a whole for locking someone up for failure to pay child-support, especially if they're not in a position to pay due to job loss." Read the entire article: http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_159775.asp By John Bhechinger and Ianthe Jeanne Dugan -- Wall Street Journal Online 9/24/2009 "New York City students who win a lottery to enroll in charter schools outperform those who don't win spots and go on to attend traditional schools, according to new research to be released Tuesday. The study, led by Stanford University economics Prof. Caroline Hoxby, is likely to fire up the movement to push states and school districts to expand charter schools -- one of the centerpieces of President Barack Obama's education strategy." Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125358513141729871.html#mod=todays_us_page_one
By Yahoo News 9/7/2009 "..."More experienced people are getting hired, and they're downgrading their skills to get the job," Wells said. "I feel like I'm competing with older workers, not college graduates. It wears on your confidence."..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_stress_map_awkward_ages
By YahooNews 9/24/2009 "A census worker found hanged from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest met his end in a corner of Appalachia with an abundance of meth labs and marijuana fields — and a reputation for mistrusting government that dates back to the days of moonshiners and "revenuers."..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_us/us_census_worker_hanged By ScienceDaily 9/4/2009 "Mental health in young people worsens in line with trends in the labour market. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health studied data from 1985 to 2002 and found that, across ten European countries, as the proportion of young people not in work increased, so did the proportion of 15-year-olds who reported mental health symptoms such as feeling low, difficulty sleeping or headaches." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090907214551.htm By Abbie Boudreau and Scott Bronstein - CNN Special Investigations Unit 9/24/2009 "The sick men are Marines, or sons of Marines. All 20 of them were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps' training base in North Carolina, between the 1960s and the 1980s. They all have had breast cancer -- a disease that strikes fewer than 2,000 men in the United States a year, compared with about 200,000 women." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/24/marines.breast.cancer/index.html
By Steve Vockrodt Bizjournals.com - Kansas 9/22/2009 "The Missouri Court of Appeals sided with a former employee of the Kansas City Club who said he was fired because he received a court order to pay child support." Read the entire article: http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/09/21/daily12.html By ScienceDaily.com 9/10/2009 "Whether they’re found in a museum or a textbook, historical narratives about traumatic events such as war and genocide are better left to older students, who have typically developed a more refined historical consciousness, says a University of Illinois professor who studies and teaches historical instruction." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090908125142.htm By John Bear -- Valencia County News Bulletin - New Mexico 9/19/2009 "A Bosque Farms Police Officer has been arrested on a warrant for past-due child support, making him the second officer from the department arrested in as many weeks." Read the entire article: http://www.news-bulletin.com/nb/index.php/news/607-BF-officer-surrenders-in-child-support-case.html By Dennis Cauchon -- USA TODAY 9/18/2009 "The incomes of the young and middle-aged — especially men — have fallen off a cliff since 2000, leaving many age groups poorer than they were even in the 1970s, a USA TODAY analysis of new Census data found." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2009-09-17-young-people_N.htm?csp=34 By ScienceDaily.com 9/10/2009 "The introduction of K-12 engineering education has the potential to improve student learning and achievement in science and mathematics, increase awareness about what engineers do and of engineering as a potential career, and boost students' technological literacy, according to a new report from the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council. The report examines the status and nature of efforts to teach engineering in U.S. schools." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090908125129.htm By KFYR-TV – North Dakota 9/9/2009 "..."Anytime you`re dealing with an order that`s too expensive it`s going to cause a problem," says Mike Schwindt, the child support enforcement director. "So this is a better way of making sure that there`s a more equal sharing of the resources that way. We think it`s a step in the right direction."..." Read the entire article: http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=33799 By Cherry Hill Courier Post -- New Jersey 9/8/2009 "I had a conversation with a friend whose son was arrested recently on nonpayment of child support. He had been unemployed for more than a year but was making minimal payments when he could." Read the entire article: http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090908/OPINION/909080308/1047 By Marietta Times - Georgia 9/5/2009 "In an economy that continues to generate unemployment in record numbers and create financial stress, people looking for reviews or adjustments of their required child support payments are growing in number." Read the entire article: http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/515549.html?nav=5002 By The Age - Australia 9/6/2009 "THE cluster of fathers gathered around a barbecue at midday draws a few odd looks in a playground full of mothers and small children. But these stay-at-home dads are used to that." Read the entire article: http://www.theage.com.au/national/dads-still-a-rare-sight-at-playgroup-20090905-fc54.html By FoxNews.com 9/3/2009 "A lawsuit in California that was filed last month by angry parents who object to a gay-friendly curriculum they say is being foisted on kindergartners could well become a test case for schools around the country." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,546280,00.html?test=latestnews By CNN.com 9/8/2009 "One of the most unexpected controversies of the Obama administration came to a head Tuesday as the president delivered a hotly debated back-to-school speech to students across the country." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/08/obama.school.speech/index.html?iref=werecommend
By Fayette Front Page.com - Georgia 8/26/2009 "The Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS) Office of Child Support Services (OCSS) has nearly doubled the number of child support agents in response to an increased demand for services. OCSS recently added 21 new agents to the state’s Fatherhood Program as the number of non-custodial parents receiving unemployment benefits has quadrupled since 2008. The agents will help non-custodial parents who face various economic barriers find jobs so they can pay child support." Read the entire article: http://georgiafrontpage.blogspot.com/2009/08/number-of-ocss-agents-nearly-doubles-as.html By MSNBC.com 8/27/2009 "Dozens of impoverished farmers struggling with debt and poor rainfall have killed themselves in southern India in recent weeks, leaving behind families plunged even further into poverty, activists and politicians said." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32585162/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/ By CNN.com 8/24/2009 "...They point to their father as exhibit A. At 86, he still comes to the office that his sons named after him, the Victor Roberts Building, a large complex complete with restaurants and retail stores. He worked 39 years in the Postal Service before retiring in the 1980s. He now keeps a keen eye on his now grown boys. He refuses a paycheck. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/08/24/black.donald.trumps/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
By Marketplace - USA 8/21/2009 "Despite hints that the economy is recovering, job losses continue. But what happens when fathers who pay child support are out of work? Monica Brady-Myerov reports." Read the entire article: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/08/21/mm-child-support/ By CNN.com 8/21/2009 "A Vietnam veteran and Bronze Star recipient who volunteered to return to the Army and serve in Afghanistan became the oldest U.S. service member to die in combat there, the U.S. military announced Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/21/afghanistan.oldest.death/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By Chicago Tribune 8/19/2009 "...There were the usual jokes from friends about his low pay and cushy workday. There were the awkward moments with women who sometimes belittled his profession. There was the occasional whisper or suspicious glance from parents who questioned why a young man would choose to spend so much time with children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-male-teachers-19-aug19,0,3771337.story By ScienceDaily.com 8/9/2009 "While higher education has helped women narrow their long-running wage gap with men, there is one college-related factor that has becoming increasingly important in perpetuating that gap, according to new research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810024829.htm By My Fox Boston - Massachusetts - Special Report 8/12/2009 "At the Norfolk County Jail, he was inmate 35634. Foxboro business owner Jim Foley spent two weeks behind bars. His crime was failure to pay his ex-wife $8,500 in spousal support." Read the entire article: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/special_reports/paying_alimony_forever_081209 By ScienceDaily.com 8/11/2009 "Workers hired for temporary, contract, casual or fixed-term positions are at risk for increased mental health problems, according to research to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810104933.htm
By ScienceDaily.com 8/10/2009 "A new study examining the interactions of black and white high-achieving students in elite, private high schools reveals how today's millennial generation is negotiating race, identity and academic success. In a paper presented Aug. 8 at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in San Francisco, Michelle Burstion-Young, a University of Cincinnati doctoral student in sociology, says she is breaking new ground in sociological research – exploring culture and race in the leadership class of the millennial generation – in academically competitive environments where an achievement gap does not exist." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810104812.htm By Yahoo News 8/6/2009 "How many bake sales does it take to save a teacher's job? For decades, public-school parents have organized such fundraising events to cover the costs of field trips, sports equipment and other frills that enrich their children's education. Yet now, as recession clouds hang ever lower and state budgets tighten, schools and districts are increasingly asking adults to help pay for essentials." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090806/us_time/08599191459800 By Carey Roberts -- RenewAmerica.com 8/3/2009 "In a reprise of Sonia Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comments, the New York Times has settled the age-old debate about who makes better office managers. "No Doubts: Women are Better Managers" announces the July 26 headline." Read the entire article: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/090803 By CNN.com 8/5/2009 "Jim Nicholson could've just handed over the cash. Instead, he gave the would-be robber a run for his money -- and paid for it. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/05/bank.teller.stops.robber/index.html By -- Voice of America - USA 8/5/2009 "It is said that babies don't come with an instruction manual. So, raising them through childhood, the school years and off to college is a long and expensive process. How expensive?..." Read the entire article: http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-05-voa3.cfm By Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott -- Woodlands Online, LLC - Texas "The start of a new school year is an exciting time! New teachers, classmates, books and supplies await a child on the first day of school. As Texas children head back to the classroom, it’s a good time to remind parents of the importance of supporting their children both emotionally and financially." Read the entire article: http://woodlandsonline.com/npps/story.cfm?nppage=31852 By Joe Schwartz -- The Independent Weekly – North Carolina 8/4/2009 "Carrboro mayoral candidate Amanda Ashley owes more than $20,000 in unpaid child support and has served jail time because of her failure to pay, according to Orange County court documents." Read the entire article: http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A398980 By Ashley Fielding -- Gamesville Times 7/31/2009 "Two recent cases involving teacher-student relationships have spurred a state legislator to clear up any question about such romantic trysts in Georgia. State Rep. Doug Collins, a Gainesville Republican, said sex between students and teachers should never happen, no matter a student’s age or if the sex is consensual. He is writing a bill to make sexual contact between teachers and students illegal in all cases." Read the entire article: http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/21787/ By USA Today 8/3/2009 " Depression in children as young as 3 is real and not just a passing grumpy mood, according to provocative new research." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-08-03-depression-kids_N.htm?csp=34 By The Examiner – District of Columbia 7/29/2009 "Only 150 officers stand watch these days over more than 3,500 inmates — about 700 more than capacity. Each guard covers eight inmates when they are corralled into the cafeteria, twice as many as a few years ago. And the governor says more cuts may loom. "I'm not trying to glorify our job. It has inherent dangers," said Ferranto, a 32-year-old married father of two. "But when you're dealing with these people under these circumstances, it's a bomb ready to go off."..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/economy/ap/51929882.html By Melissa Correa -- WWBT12 – Virginia 7/29/2009 "They can't print the checks fast enough. Right now, the state is handling about $2 million a day in child support payments. "You can run, but you can't hide. Move to California. Move to Idaho. Move to Texas. We will follow you," said Nick Young, Virginia Director for Child Support. Sign up for unemployment and the state's got you there too. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nbc12.com/global/story.asp?s=10813031 By Medical News Today 7/14/2009 "Men and women who walk or ride a bike to work appear more fit, and men are less likely to be overweight or obese and have healthier triglyceride levels, blood pressure and insulin levels, according to a report in the July 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals." Read the entire article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/157431.php By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY 7/29/2009 "...These men from the Columbus, Ohio, area are the unusual new faces of joblessness in this groundbreaking recession: older men cut loose from employment at the peak of their earning power and work experience. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2009-07-29-oldermales_N.htm?csp=34 By Sergio Bichao -- My Central Jersey.com 7/27/2009 "The engineering class going on this summer on the third floor of the Allison Road classroom building on the Busch campus does not look like any other engineering class at Rutgers University. In fact, it may not look like any other engineering class anywhere. That is because everyone in the class is an adolescent girl." Read the entire article: http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090727/NEWS/90727002 By San Francisco Examiner -- 7/25/2009 "Rachael Bouma calculated the cost of keeping rambunctious kindergartners under control at her son's school at exactly $227. That was the amount she and other parents in the Tacoma district figured every family with kids in Lowell Elementary's kindergarten classes would need to contribute to save the jobs of three teacher's aides. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sfexaminer.com/nation/Parents-pass-the-hat-to-make-up-for-school-cuts--51620657.html By Josh Levs -- CNN 7/20/2009 "...It's a two-sided coin: Many American fathers are working harder than ever as their managers try to take care of business with fewer workers. On the flip side, many dads who've lost their jobs are finding that they're becoming the new Mr. Moms. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/07/20/dads.and.recession/index.html?iref=newssearch
By ScienceDaily.com 6/29/2009 "...Men who had a mediocre relationship had a higher incidence of depression, anxiety, psychological and somatic stress reactions than men with worse or better relationships. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090623090711.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/23/2009 "A first-of-its-kind RAND Corporation study has linked the rapid growth in health care costs in the United States with job losses and lower output among industries that commonly provide workers with health insurance." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090723142053.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/15/2009 "While attending university, men are equally likely as women to have been victims of physical or emotional violence, and that violence is often linked to drinking, according to a new study led by University of British Columbia researcher Elizabeth Saewyc." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715090635.htm By CNN.com 7/23/2009 "..."I believe that Sgt. [James] Crowley acted in a way that is consistent with his training at the department, and consistent with national standards of law enforcement protocol," Commissioner Robert Haas said, referring to the officer who made the July 16 arrest at the professor's home. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/23/officer.gates.arrest/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Kenosha News.com – Wisconsin 7/22/2009 "Kenosha County will use $450,000 in federal stimulus funding to beef up child support enforcement efforts through Sept. 30, 2010." Read the entire article: http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/county_board_accepts_450000_grant_6030979.html By Ventura County Star - Camarillo, CA 7/9/2009 "Renewing his insistence that policy changes must be part of any agreement to balance California’s budget and stop the flow of IOUs, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday put the spotlight on the state’s welfare-to-work program, which he called “the most generous of all the states.”.." Read the entire article: http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jul/09/governor-targets-welfare-to-work-program-for/ By Sarah Hopkins -- WHAG - Hagerstown, MD 7/10/2009 "Paying child support is never easy, but paying it when you've lost your job is even harder." Read the entire article: http://your4state.com/content/fulltext/?cid=71772 By William Ehart -- Washington Times 7/12/2009 "If you recently earned a B.S., an M.A. or a Ph.D., chances are someone is holding a big IOU." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/12/college-grads-face-ious-worst-job-market-years/ By KOB.com - Albuquerque, New Mexico 7/10/2009 "New Mexico has collected a record in child support payments" Read the entire article: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1022273.shtml?cat=504 By Mark Curnutte -- Cincinatti.com 7/11/2009 "Families splintered by divorce face more hardship when a parent gets laid off. With the recession pushing the unemployment rate to 9.5 percent, job losses have not spared two-household families." Read the entire article: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090711/NEWS01/907120340/Child+support+echoes+unemployment By KOHD - Bend, Oregon -- 7/14/2009 "As local unemployment rates rise, child support is becoming harder for some parents to pay. The Oregon Department of Justice is offering a new program for those who lose their jobs and can't pay the same amount of child support they owe based on their old income." Read the entire article: http://kohd.com/news/local/134092
"...With unemployment at generational highs, more divorced parents are struggling to meet their child support or alimony requirements, citing lost jobs or reduced earning power. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_3support.6945989jul19,0,7380347.story By Christina Hoff Sommers -- Weekly Standard 6/29/2009 "A "man-cession." That's what some economists are starting to call it. Of the 5.7 million jobs Americans lost between December 2007 and May 2009, nearly 80 percent had been held by men. Mark Perry, an economist at the University of Michigan, characterizes the recession as a "downturn" for women but a "catastrophe" for men." Read the entire article: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/659dkrod.asp By Laura Sessions Stepp -- Washington Post 7/5/2009 "Bobby Krotendorfer didn't expect to be a father at 19, or jobless at 20. But he's determined to be a loving dad and strong breadwinner. The first part comes easily. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/26/AR2009062602533.html By Avis Thomas-Lester -- Washington Post Staff Writer 7/4/2009 "Tynita Johnson had attended predominantly black schools in Prince George's County for 10 years when she walked into Will Thomas's AP government class last August and found something she had never seen. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/03/AR2009070302498.html By Michael Birnbaum -- Washington Post 7/6/2009 "When the Online School for Girls flickers to life this fall on computer screens across the country, students will take part in an unusual experiment that joins two trends: girls-only schooling and online teaching. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070502424.html
"Jay Walker of Cedar Rapids says he’s losing his life, attempting to keep up with child-support payments for his 10-month-old son." Read the entire article: http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090705/NEWS/707059988/1006
By Bob White -- News Enterprise - Elizabethtown, Kentucky "...First indicted on the Class D felony in 1993 in Hardin Circuit Court, Thompson was later convicted. After failing to catch up on the large arrearage, a probated prison sentence for Thompson was set for revocation. ... Read the entire article: http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?053+article+News.Local+20090703154141053053003 By MSNBC.com 6/29/2009 "The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31609275/ns/politics-white_house/ By Christina Hoff Sommers -- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 6/29/2009 ""Harder to kill than a vampire." That is what the sociologist Joel Best calls a bad statistic. But, as I have discovered over the years, among false statistics the hardest of all to slay are those promoted by feminist professors. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.aei.org/article/100695 By Miami Herald Sports 6/26/2009 "...After a process of thorough screenings and background checks, Riley is just as confident that Pat Beverley and Robert Dozier have regained their footing after a few missteps in their college careers. Neither Beverley nor Dozier were charged or arrested for a crime in college. But they arrive to the NBA having emerged from off-the-court incidents that included claims of academic fraud, domestic assault, accepting money from an agent and failure to pay child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/story/1116205.html By Mike Sever -- RecordPub.com 6/28/2009 "Portage County’s Department of Job and Family Services has reached a settlement with the former head of its child support enforcement agency. The settlement pays Sylvia Strasshofer five years’ worth of salary, retirement witholding and Medicare contributions totaling $297,000. The payments cover the period from her termination through Dec. 31, 2011, and will come out of the JFS budget and not from the county general fund, according to county officials. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4617503
By The Independent (UK) 6/29/2009 "Parents could be fined or sent to prison if their children misbehave, under powers to be awarded to schools. They form part of a government White Paper on education to be published by the Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, tomorrow." Read the entire article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/parents-of-unruly-children-to-be-fined-1722942.html
By Kim Zetter -- Wired 6/25/2009 "....Oei, an assistant principal at Freedom High School in South Riding, Virginia, was charged last year over a photo he obtained in the course of investigating a sexting issue at his school. In March 2008, Oei’s principal tasked him with investigating rumors that some students at the school were exchanging sexually explicit photos of a teenage girl. When confronted by Oei, a male student admitted he had one photo. After the principal instructed him to retain a copy of the photo for the investigation, Oei had the student e-mail the image to his cell phone, as well as transfer it to Oei’s desktop computer. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/sexting By Trudy Schuett -- Examiner.com 6/29/2009 "The military is turning to the virtual world to treat traumatized veterans of the Iraq war, giving troops a high-tech way to confront and overcome mental war wounds. Virtual Iraq uses electronically re-created Iraqi environs that look like a video game, as well as the sounds and smells of deployment, to help those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder revisit the events that affected them so profoundly." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m6d29-Virtual-reality-therapy-helps-troops-deal-with-PTSD By MSNBC.com 6/18/2009 "BlackBerry in hand and baby in tow, dads don't have much down time these days. Now, a new study reveals many Danish men are clocking up to 40 hours of overtime at work each week. Obviously, work is organized somewhat differently in many European countries, but the Danish study could apply to the United States, where longer work hours are becoming the norm as well, say the researchers." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31428859/ns/health-mens_health/ By Suzanne Cassidy -- Lancaster Newspapers - Pennsylvania 6/21/2009 "...Today, fathers are expected to be more than just breadwinners. They are expected to be fully engaged in the lives of their children. And yet, when they lose their jobs, it is the loss of the role of provider that can leave fathers reeling. ...Men have been particularly hard-hit by this recession. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in May rose to 7.5 percent for women and to 9.8 percent for men." Read the entire article: http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/239079 By TheDenverChannel.com - Colorado 6/25/2009 "A strange phenomenon is taking place in Colorado because of the recession. Child support collections from those who are now on unemployment have skyrocketed over the past year. The money is intercepted before the unemployed person gets it and that means collections are up 232 percent." Read the entire article: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/19861154/detail.html By ScienceDaily 6/10/2009 "Both boys and girls have issues, but boys seem to be the ones getting the raw deal. According to Judith Kleinfeld, professor of psychology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the US, issues affecting boys are more serious than those affecting girls, but they have been neglected by policy makers. Her review of issues characterizing American boyhood, how they compare to those affecting girls, and the lack of initiatives in place to address them has just been published in the June issue of Springer’s journal Gender Issues." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090608125114.htm By ScienceDaily 6/19/2009 "The physical and mental health needs of juvenile offenders should be treated as a priority if offenders held in detention have any real hope of rehabilitation, according to new research from the University of Adelaide, Australia." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619112333.htm By LocalNews8.com - Idaho 6/22/2009 " A state office says child support payments drawn from unemployment checks have increased 185% in the second quarter of 2009 compared to last year. The state Office of Recovery Services data also shows the amount it collected from unemployment checks increased 135% in the first quarter of the year compared to last year." Read the entire article: http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=10573769&nav=menu554_2 By USA Today 6/24/2009 "Ed Thomas, one of the best-known high school football coaches in Iowa and the NFL's 2005 high school coach of the year, was fatally shot Wednesday by a former high school football player, authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-24-school-shooting-iowa_N.htm?csp=34&POE=click-refer By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY 6/24/2009 "The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday that parents can win reimbursement for the private school tuition of a child with special needs, even if the child did not first receive special education in a public school. The decision involving a teen from Oregon is a victory for parents who are looking for options for their children with disabilities and a blow to school districts, such as Forest Grove in Oregon, that say that a reimbursement policy could hurt financially burdened public schools." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-06-22-courtschools_N.htm?obref=obinsite&POE=click-refer By Austin American-Statesman - Texas 6/20/2009 "Anyone who doubts that fatherhood is changing should take a quick look at the research. Compared with previous generations, more dads are staying out of the work force to care for young children, more single fathers are living with their children and more are working evening or weekend shifts to provide daytime care for their young children. All that additional time with kids means men are more hands-on than their fathers were with them." Read the entire article: http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/other/2009/06/20/0620RaisingAustin.html By Glenn Sacks and Dr. Ned Holstein -- Atlanta Journal Constitution – Georgia 6/21/2009 "This will be an exceptionally sad Father’s Day for millions of divorced and separated fathers and the children who love them and need them. Many dads have lost their jobs or suffered significant drops in income. Because it is difficult for fathers to get their child support orders modified downward, many decent, loving fathers are being jailed because they can’t keep up with their child support obligations." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2009/06/21/sacksed_0621.html By Fox News 6/23/2009 "Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do. Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its "rubber rooms" — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,528780,00.html
By Dallas Morning News - Texas 6/21/2009 "Caution: Men Out of Work. That's more than a pithy play on words. It is a sobering sign of the times, a troubling trend that David Zinczenko, editor in chief of Men's Health, cleverly calls the "Great He-Cession." Turns out that men – much more than women – are feeling the brutal brunt of a gut-wrenching recession that's devouring male-dominated jobs in construction and manufacturing. "This troubling trend has been going on for several years, but it really picked up speed at the end of 2008," Zinczenko wrote in a recent USA Today article. "Of the 5.2 million people who've lost their jobs since last summer, four out of five were men. "Some experts predict that this year, for the first time, more American women will have jobs than men. And that's just furthering the decline of the endangered male." I'm not ready to jump on the "endangered male" bandwagon just yet. Not after enduring all the "endangered-black-male" hype for two decades. Let's see, we're so endangered that a black male now runs the White House. Nor am I ready to emphatically declare that this draconian turn in the economy is as glum and gut-wrenching as the Great Depression that gripped our parents and grandparents. We have more safety nets than we did eight decades ago, even if they aren't fail-proof. This much is clear: Too many men – and fathers – are losing their identity and well-honed sense of self-worth as the traditional, breadwinning, daddy-knows-best role gives way to more women taking charge at work and at home." Read the entire article: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-ragland_21met.ART0.Central.Edition1.4af7df9.html By Marisol Bello, USA TODAY 6/17/2009 "Child support payments are falling as parents lose their jobs. States report that more parents are failing to pay and more are going to court to reduce their obligations. Some custodial parents are asking for higher payments because their income is down. And more parents are using unemployment checks to pay child support. "It's the economy, simply put," says Iliana Rodriguez, director of Child Support Services in San Mateo County, Calif. "These are people who have never been unemployed in their lives." In San Mateo, contempt orders against parents who owe child support increased 129% — from 180 to 413 — in the six months ending in March over the same time the previous year. Most child support goes through state agencies. States collect and forward payments ordered by judges in divorces and other court actions, and they track payments to families on public assistance. There are no national figures, but states from New Hampshire to Texas are seeing similar problems: • In Texas, the amount of child support withheld from unemployment checks quadrupled in April to $10.7 million from $2.5 million in April last year, says Janece Rolfe of the Child Support Division. • Payments are down in Ohio, New Hampshire and Minnesota. Jeffrey Aldridge, deputy director of child support in Ohio, says the state collected $794 million in April, $10 million less than April 2008. New Hampshire collected $42 million from October to March, $2 million less than the same period a year ago. Minnesota took in $152 million for the first quarter, compared with $156 million in 2008. • In Arkansas, the number of parents who got approval to modify payments jumped 47% to 4,000 from July through March, from 2,730 a year earlier. "When those numbers start to go up, you know people are losing their jobs," says Dan McDonald, director of the Office of Child Support." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-17-child-support_N.htm?csp=34&POE=click-refer
By Mike Krumboltz -- Yahoo Buzz 6/16/2009 "For teens, there is no greater joy than graduating high school. Shaking off the shackles of education and claiming that hard-fought diploma is truly an epic day. Unfortunately, for several students at Bonny Eagle High School in Maine, their natural exuberance has led to some surprisingly serious problems. On Friday night, when the senior class was waiting to graduate, excitement began to grow. Students bounced a large inflatable rubber duck. The noise level rose. And then came "the kiss." When called, one student walked on stage to receive his diploma and blew a kiss to his family. The school administrator, clearly not the sentimental sort, sent the student back to his seat ... sans diploma. The seemingly harsh punishment has sent the Web all aflutter. Searches on "student denied diploma" and "bonny eagle high school" are both through the roof. Additionally, blogs and news papers are chiming in with opinions on whether or not the administration overreacted. The student's mother has given interviews and is quite upset at her son's treatment. According to an article from Fox News the outraged mother said, "A bow, a kiss to your mom is not misbehavior."..." Read the entire article: http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92681?fp=1 By Kari Henley -- Huffungton Post 6/4/2009 ..."Now, before you get hot and huffy here about gender sexism, bear with me. This scenario is not far from the truth for our upcoming leaders of tomorrow. Since the 1970's feminism has opened up unparalleled opportunity for women to move forward in education and business. Is it perfect? No, but today's daughters are breaking glass ceilings and blazing trails. However, there are glass shards and dead end roads being inadvertently left for the men, and the boys. In the past ten years or so, the world of education has changed dramatically. The "No Child Left Behind Act" has been a disaster, and instead has turned into "All Boys Left Behind." Our nation's boys are not just slipping through the cracks, they are washing down the Grand Canyon without a paddle, and something must be done about it. Peg Tyre is author of the book, The Trouble with Boys, a #1 best seller, coming out in paperback this summer. Tyre spent five years researching the current education system from every demographic. She has a powerful, unrelenting story of how our young men are struggling, and describes a giant education gap that will affect every level of American life, in a very short period of time, as these kids grow up. Currently, boys are being "expelled" from preschool four times more than girls. They are 60% more likely to be held back in kindergarten, and twice as likely to be diagnosed with learning disabilities. Only 43% of young men are enrolled as undergraduates in college, girls are taking more AP classes in high school, and dominating as school valedictorians. In fact, a "dirty little secret" at many colleges and universities is the unspoken "new gender gap." Boys are being admitted to colleges with lesser qualifications than girls to keep the gender balance." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kari-henley/no-child-left-behind-all_b_214937.html By Morgan Neill -- CNN 6/8/2009 "They are young, earn little and spend little, and take a keen interest in fashion and personal appearance -- meet the "herbivore men" of Japan. Author and pop culture columnist Maki Fukasawa coined the term in 2006 in a series of articles on marketing to a younger generation of Japanese men. She used it to describe some men who she said were changing the country's ideas about just what is -- and isn't -- masculine. "In Japan, sex is translated as 'relationship in flesh,'" she said, "so I named those boys 'herbivorous boys' since they are not interested in flesh." Typically, "herbivore men" are in their 20s and 30s, and believe that friendship without sex can exist between men and women, Fukasawa said." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/05/japan.herbivore.men/index.html
By Kerry Benefield -- THE PRESS DEMOCRAT 6/7/2009 "A battle over sex education is under way in Sonoma County, pitting a longtime abstinence-only group against California Department of Education officials who say the group breaks state law when it teaches in the classroom. Among the players in the unfolding debate are the ACLU of Northern California, the California Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Free to Be, a Sonoma County group that has been promoting abstinence until marriage for 17 years. Caught in the middle are schools and districts that have hosted Free to Be speakers, including teens, to talk to students about the benefits of abstaining from sex until they are married. “The law specifically requires that all elements of sex education be balanced and accurate,” said Phyllida Burlingame, sex education policy director for the ACLU of Northern California, which has worked for months to keep Free to Be from giving presentations in public schools. “Students (need to) receive a consistent message that is based on science, that includes accurate, effective information,” she said." Read the entire article: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090607/ARTICLES/906079971/1349?Title=Sex-ed-battle-heats-up By Matt Willoughby -- North Carolina News Network - Raleigh, NC 6/4/2009 "A state Senate bill that would have allowed child support to continue through college is stalled in a House committee. The Senate approved the legislation but it ran into opposition in the House Juvenile Justice Committee. Senator John Snow, a retired judge, proposed continuing court ordered child support payments until the age of 21 if the child was in college." Read the entire article: http://www.ncnn.com/content/view/4480/26/
By Gabriella Boston -- Washington Times 5/31/2009 ..."Not so fast, says Andrew Sum, a labor-economics professor at Northeastern University in Boston: "Unemployment numbers will continue to be high." Those numbers are particularly gruesome among young, black males, which is beyond worrisome for the black family and community, experts in those areas say. For example, for black males ages 20 to 24, the unemployment rate is close to 50 percent; in the black community overall, men have absorbed 100 percent of the job losses 463,000 jobs since the recession started in November 2007. And even if the economy grows by the forecasted 1.3 percent, it's not enough to create job growth, says Mr. Sum, who doesn't anticipate any net job growth until 2011. "From a fatherhood perspective, it's going to have an enormous impact on an already fragile community," says Roland Warren, president of the National Fatherhood Initiative, a nonprofit group aimed at "increasing the proportion of children growing up with an involved, responsible and committed father." "So much of the traditional view of the father revolves around his ability to provide," says Mr. Warren, who writes a column for The Washington Times." Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/31/recession-hits-black-men/ - News & Observer – North Carolina 6/1/2009 "For years, Steven Injasoulian and his former wife didn't need a judge to tell them how to pay for their 4-year-old son. They had a simple verbal agreement: Injasoulian provided health insurance and paid child support. But that was before Injasoulian, a surveyor, lost his job last June, as the housing industry in North Carolina began to stagger. Since then, Injasoulian has joined a fast-growing army in North Carolina: noncustodial parents struggling to make child-support payments without a paycheck. "I want to do right by my kid," said the young father." Read the entire article: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1550242.html By Brian Reisinger • Wausau Daily Herald • 5/23/2009 "...."One week we found out we were having a baby, and the next week, we found out we only had one income," Buksa, 40, said as his now 6-month-old daughter, Megan, peered about their living room in the Taylor County village of Rib Lake. Buksa is among a surging number of central Wisconsin residents, particularly men, who unexpectedly are becoming stay-at-home parents in the national recession. Their new role is a direct consequence of rising unemployment rates, which for March reached 12.1 percent in Wausau. Although men and women both have faced layoffs, industries that typically employ more men, such as housing and manufacturing, are struggling the most. The national unemployment rate among men was 10 percent in April, compared with 7.6 percent among women, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics. The rate for men has grown almost twice as rapidly as that of women since January. The recent growth in at-home fatherhood mirrors a larger social movement. With women taking on a larger role in the professional world in recent decades, experts say it's natural for more men to stay at home than in the past." Read the entire article: http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20090523/WDH0101/905230655/1981
By John F. Burns - New York Times 5/25/2009 " A historic month for women in British poetry turned sour on Monday when the first woman in 301 years elected to Oxford University’s prestigious chair in poetry resigned and admitted what she had previously denied — that she had played a part in a covert effort to taint her main rival for the post with old allegations of sexual impropriety. Ruth Padel, 63, was chosen only 10 days ago for the Oxford post, which is regarded as second only to poet laureate among the formal distinctions for poets in Britain. Two weeks earlier, Carol Ann Duffy, 53, became Britain’s first female poet laureate, a post formally created in 1668. Ms. Padel’s admission that she sent e-mail messages to two reporters last month alerting them to allegations of sexual harassment against her main rival for the Oxford post, the Nobel literature laureate Derek Walcott, was a stunning turn in a saga of skullduggery that had opened a bitter schism in Britain’s literary world." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/books/26poet.html By L.L. Braiser - Detroit Free Press - Michigan 5/26/2009 "Ray, a journeyman electrician, unemployed and desperate, left Macomb County two weeks ago for work in Oklahoma. It meant leaving his two daughters, the subjects of an upcoming custody battle with his soon-to-be ex-wife. "I would never, ever have left my children," he said. "But I had no work. I looked for seven months and couldn't get a callback. I couldn't sleep at night ... With no work, I wasn't doing my children any good." Ray, who asked that his last name not be used to protect his daughters' privacy, is among hundreds of divorced and divorcing parents in Michigan looking to leave the state to find work. In some cases, they also are seeking a reduction in the amount of child support they pay. The requests, once rare, are now becoming commonplace as Michigan's economy continues to crumble. For those who stay in Michigan, child support often comes out of their unemployment checks; the amount of child support withheld from unemployment payments jumped 135% in the last year." Read the entire article: http://www.freep.com/article/20090526/NEWS03/905260360/A+divorced+parent+s+dilemma++Leave+kids+to+find+work By Christina Hoff Sommers -- Double X 5/20/2009 ...."In Friedan's day, women were clearly the second sex. Not so today. Yes, many women are struggling with the challenge of combining family and work. But men do not have it easy either. They are increasingly less educated than women. They are bearing the brunt of the recession. The New York Times recently reported that "a full 82 percent of the job losses have befallen men." Reuters referred to the surging male unemployment rate as a "blood bath." Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "FastStats" show that men are less likely than women to be insured—and more likely to drink, smoke, and be overweight. They also die six years earlier than women on average. Why are there no conferences, petitions, workshops, congressional hearings, or presidential councils to help men close the education gap, the health care gap, the insurance gap, the job-loss gap, and the death gap? Because, unlike women, men do not have hundreds of men's studies departments, research institutes, policy centers, and lobby groups working tirelessly to promote their challenges as political causes. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/are-men-second-sex-now
By YahooFinance.com 5/11/2009 "When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news. His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked. The sociology major's obituary-friendly quote -- which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer's death March 28 -- flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia twice caught the quote's lack of attribution and removed it. A full month went by and nobody noticed the editorial fraud. So Fitzgerald told several media outlets they'd swallowed his baloney whole." Read the entire article: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Irish-student-hoaxes-worlds-apf-15201451.html?.v=1
By Karen Auge -- The Denver Post 5/9/2009 "As jobs evaporate in Colorado, the amount of child-support money coming from unemployment checks — rather than workers' wages — has nearly tripled, causing concern about what will happen when those checks run out. Child-support payments collected from unemployment checks soared 174 percent in the first three months of 2009 compared with the same period last year. Through March, the state child- support system had collected $3.5 million from unemployment compensation checks. For the same period last year, the amount was $1.26 million. In Denver alone, child support paid from unemployment checks has gone from $219,970 in the first four months of 2008 to $568,014 for the same period of this year, said Elizabeth Calvert, director of Denver's child-support division. Those figures don't represent additional collections of delinquent payments or new cases. Instead they reflect the simple fact that the number of people who are unemployed and paying child support has soared." Read the entire article: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_12330875 By Los Angeles Times "As more Californians have lost their jobs, the state has collected an increasing amount of child support directly from unemployment checks. Use this interactive map to see which counties saw the largest increases in such collections from 2007 to 2008, the most recent statewide data available." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-childsupport-fl,0,5532835.htmlstory By Molly Hennessy-Fiske -- Los Angeles Times 5/3/2009 "California's rising unemployment rate is driving a steep increase in child support cases, as the newly jobless appeal for increases in monthly payments or argue that they can no longer afford the amounts ordered by the court. In Los Angeles County, about 450 new cases are filed each day, double the amount at this time last year. More than 3,000 calls come in daily -- up 25% -- increasingly from custodial parents asking child support staffers to crack down on deadbeats. The number of parents seeking help with child support modifications has tripled during the last month and a half, with some parents showing up at 5 a.m. to wait in line. "Can we handle it? No," said L.A. County Child Support Services Director Steven J. Golightly. Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-child-support3-2009may03,0,4622163.story By ScienceDaily.com 4/23/2009 "Do personal traits predict success in school? If so, which dimension of one's outward appearance can tell the most about academic achievement? The answers to these questions are found in a new study by researchers from the University of Miami Health Economics Research Group. The study is the first to demonstrate that non-cognitive traits play an important role in the assignment of grades in high school." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422175338.htm By USA Today 4/23/2009 "The high school dropout problem is getting better in some big cities where it's most severe, a national study found, but the overall situation remains dismal, as more than one in four kids drops out of high school nationwide." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-04-23-dropouts-high-school_N.htm By USA Today 4/17/2009 "Vice President Joe Biden pledged Friday to close gaps between family incomes and college costs to make higher education a reality for more young people." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-04-17-biden-college_N.htm By Journal Times - Wisconsin 4/29/2009 "If you owe child support and you’ve lost your job, you might catch a break from the county. People who have lost their jobs may be able to get a reduction in the amount of their current child support orders, Racine County Executive Bill McReynolds announced Wednesday. “Our Child Support Office is committed to ensuring that our children receive the support they deserve, but our people also understand the economic difficulties many of our citizens are experiencing,” McReynolds said in a release. “This initiative reflects their consistent determination to do what’s best for all concerned.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2009/04/29/local_news/doc49f908d45577d384674542.txt By Alta Mayhugh --Williston Herald – North Dakota 4/30/2009 "A statewide program to aid parents who pay child support and have been laid off has been in place for about a month. But phones at the Williston Regional Child Support Enforcement Unit haven’t been ringing off the hook” yet. This shocks Ranee Kringen, administrator of the regional unit. “It really surprises me. I thought we’d be swamped,” Kringen said. ....The program offers parents temporary relief from court-ordered obligations, along with job placement help, states a news release from the North Dakota Department of Human Services. Mike Schwindt, director of the state Child Support Enforcement Division, said the parent receiving the child support continues to receive it under the program. However, it may be reduced because the other parent is out of a job. “But essentially that’s what happens in an intact family. If I lose my job, there’s less money coming into my family and the kids are impacted with that. The other part of this is, as soon as they get a job back, then the income goes back up, so that’s part of the proposal,” Schwindt said. Read the entire article: http://www.willistonherald.com/articles/2009/04/30/news/doc49f9cf2a5be0b427587054.txt
By Annys Shin -- Washington Post 5/3/2009 "In December, Timothy Owner, a trombone player with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, called his landlord to tell her he might have trouble paying rent around May. He and the orchestra's 53 other full-time members, many of whom are paid less than $30,000 a year, had agreed to a month-long furlough. The furlough, which ended yesterday, was rough, Owner said. But he and other musicians acknowledged that the alternative could have been worse. "We're less unhappy if this means the orchestra will survive," he said. Across the country, workers' earnings are stagnating or, in some cases, declining. For many Americans, the setbacks are all the more troubling because they have lost so much wealth in recent months, with the value of their homes and retirement packages plummeting." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/02/AR2009050202207.html?wpisrc=newsletter By Martin Weil -- Washington Post 5/3/2009 "James R. McIlvaine, who was born in Montgomery County and met his future wife at a movie theater in Olney, went on to become a sergeant in the Marine Corps. "He loved his job. He loved what he did," his wife, Sheryl, said last night. "He was proud to be a Marine." Sgt. McIlvaine, 26, died April 30 in Iraq while supporting combat operations in Anbar province, the Pentagon said. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, based in Twentynine Palms, Calif. "He is my hero," his mother, Joanne Ryan, who lives in Purcellville, said last night. "He is my hero, my number one guy."..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/02/AR2009050202499.html?wpisrc=newsletter By Washington Post Editorial 5/4/2009 "The D.C. Council wants to score points, and never mind the city's children. THE D.C. COUNCIL gave the mayor control of public schools because it rightly believed that vesting responsibility and accountability in one person was the only way to reverse decades of divided management and failed leadership. So it is curious that just two years into the reform efforts the council is proposing changes that would erode Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's control over the schools. The council needs to come to its senses and not retreat from a system that offers the children of this city the last, best chance for a better education." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/03/AR2009050301829.html?referrer=emailarticle By CHRIS A. COUROGEN, The Patriot-News 5/4/2009 "A 16-year-old student at Hill Top Academy on Winding Hill Road in Upper Allen Township is facing charges after police say he assaulted two teachers at the school. Both teachers suffered minor injuries in the April 22 incident, police said. The juvenile is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, harassment and disorderly conduct. Upper Allen Township Police conducted an investigation and filed the charges through the Cumberland County Juvenile Probation Department."
By Darryl A. Cobbin -- Huffington Post 4/27/2009 "...Conversations about the impact the economy and unemployment, or the threat of it, are having on relationships are glaringly absent in the media, and it's high time we started a dialogue. Financial pressures wreak havoc on even the best of marriages. Divorce rates hover around 50% and money issues are among the top causes, so we're facing a tsunami of marital crises in this country. We have been enjoying years of prosperity and this is the first time in a long time many of us have had to do without. It's come at us like a body blow, and now we're facing a whole new reality. But we don't have to do it alone. We're all going through it. As a husband and father I always prided myself on being a good provider to my family. A great deal of my identity was tied up with my jobs, and being able to pay for the best "things" in life for my wife and three beautiful daughters. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/darryl-a-cobbin/marriage-and-family-stimu_b_191830.html By Matt Zapotosky and Dan Morse -- Washington Post 4/25/2009 "Three black hearses led hundreds of cars yesterday on a procession through a town in Frederick County, creeping by stop signs draped with pastel ribbons and passing within view of a pale yellow house where bouquets and teddy bears have collected on the front porch. Each hearse carried a coffin. Inside one coffin were the bodies of two brothers, 5 and 4. Inside another was their mother and their 2-year-old sister. And in the third was Christopher Wood, 34, who last week killed them and then himself. "Nobody's ever going to know why," said Middletown resident Brenda Blank, who lived near the family, which had outwardly seemed untroubled. "We'll never have the answer." But to some psychologists and criminologists, at least part of the explanation lies in the financial pressures bearing down on families across the nation. Increasingly, callers to suicide hotlines complain of money problems. For a troubled few, including Wood, the response to such stress is to kill their wives and children and then themselves, experts said." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042402524.html?wpisrc=newsletter By Russ Zimmer -- The Newark Advocate/Ohio 4/26/2009 "Financial stress can tear apart a family, but it doesn't always end there, said the judges of the Licking County Domestic Relations Court. Judges Craig Baldwin and Richard Wright said the court's docket is bursting with reactivated and stalled cases that likely are the results of the economic troubles of today. More cases means more time in court dealing with issues -- such as home, asset and debt division and child support that were hashed out between attorneys in years past -- and less time for the cases that involve young lives. "In the cases with the kids, I worry with more cases that the court can't spend the appropriate and meaningful time," Baldwin said. ....More disturbing are the cases in which one parent can't make the payments, but not out of laziness or poor financial prioritizing, he said. "What do you do? Put them in jail?" Baldwin asked. "They're not what jail was intended for."..." Read the entire article: http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20090426/NEWS01/904260305/1002/NEWS01
By Yahoo News 4/22/2009 "David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of mortgage giant Freddie Mac, was found dead at his home Wednesday morning in what police said was an apparent suicide." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090422/ap_on_bi_ge/us_freddie_mac_official_dead “...With the punishing economic downturn, police officers in many American cities are confronting what they describe as a surge in property crime. At the same time, many are being forced to improvise and make do with less: The recession is shrinking the finances of local governments, limiting the resources of police departments. ....It’s going to get worse,” Ms. Myers said. “You’ve got guys who have kids, who are on the hook for child support. If selling drugs is the only way they can get the money, they’re going to do it. It’s quick money. Even the ones that had jobs and got laid off and can’t find other jobs, if they got to sell drugs or rob somebody, they got to do what they got to do.” Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/us/20cops.html?_r=1&ref=global-home By Moni Basu -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 4/12/2009 "Norval Rhodes wants to do right by his 8-month-old son. He wants reliable day care, adequate health care and proper nutrition. When he separated from his wife last year, Rhodes agreed to pay $797 a month in child support. But in these lean times, that amount is no longer tenable for the personal trainer from Dunwoody, after clients dropped precipitously. Many of those clients are struggling small-business owners forced to cut back on services that suddenly seem like luxuries. “It’s been extremely difficult,” said Rhodes, 26, who would like to cut his child- support obligation almost in half. Economically challenged, thousands of Americans are facing the same predicament. Taking home a lesser salary or out of work altogether, parents can no longer afford to pay child support settled upon in more prosperous times." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2009/04/12/child_support_economy.html
By New York Times 4/20/9 "When Danna Walker left the second-floor conference room and returned tearily to her desk — where someone had already deposited a packing box for her belongings — her first thought was not of the 14 years she had worked for DHL or the loss of her $37,000-a-year salary. It was of Jake. In three months, once her benefits ran out, how in the world would she provide health insurance for Jake, her mountainous, red-headed 21-year-old son, who had learned three years earlier that he had metastatic testicular cancer? Since the day she was laid off in October, Ms. Walker and her husband, Russ, co-owner of a struggling feed store here on the outskirts of Houston, have mounted a largely fruitless quest to find affordable coverage for Jake’s pre-existing condition." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/us/21uninsured.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper By Charlene Muhammad -- FinalCall.com - Illinois 4/10/2009 "A recent study indicates that of the major ethnic groups impacted by unemployment during the current U.S. recession, Black men have experienced the greatest job losses since the crisis officially began in November 2007. “What's missing from national media coverage of this recession is plainly a great deal of dishonesty about who's losing their jobs. This is overwhelmingly a blue collar, retail sales, low level recession,” said Andrew Sum, professor of economics and director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., which published the study. “The Impacts of the 2007-2009 National Recession on Male Employment in the U.S. through January 2009; The Massive Concentration of Job Losses Among Males Especially Black Men and Blue Collar Workers” tracked employment losses in the recession across gender groups of workers overall, and in the four major ethnicities—Asian, Black, Hispanic and White." Read the entire article: http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_5895.shtml By Murray Wardrop -- Telegraph.co.uk 4/20/2009 "The father of Slumdog Millionaire actress Rubina Ali has denied claims that he tried to sell his daughter for £200,000. Rubina, who played the young Latika in the Oscar-winning film, was reportedly put up for adoption illegally by her father Rafiq Qureshi for the six-figure sum. However Mr Qureshi, who lives in a one of India's worst slums in the city of Mumbai, has refuted claims that he was trying to sell the nine-year-old star to undercover newspaper reporters. Rubina, who played the young Latika in the Oscar-winning film, was reportedly put up for adoption illegally by her father Rafiq Qureshi for the six-figure sum. However Mr Qureshi, who lives in a one of India's worst slums in the city of Mumbai, has refuted claims that he was trying to sell the nine-year-old star to undercover newspaper reporters." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/5184499/Father-of-Slumdog-Millionaire-actress-Rubina-Ali-denies-sale-claims.html By FoxNews 4/18/2009 "Inside a burning building, fire doesn't discriminate between Matthew Marcarelli and Gary Tinney. Inside the New Haven Fire Department, however, skin color has put them on opposite sides of a lawsuit that could transform hiring procedures nationwide. This week, the Supreme Court will consider the reverse discrimination claim of Marcarelli and a group of white firefighters. They all passed a promotion exam, but the city threw out the test because no blacks would have been promoted, saying the exam had a "disparate impact" on minorities likely to violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517074,00.html By Christina Hoff Sommers -- Editorial....Washington Post -- 4/14/2009 "What's good for women's basketball will be good for nuclear physics. To most Americans, that statement will sound odd. To President Obama, it apparently does not. In an October letter to women's advocacy groups, he declared that Title IX, the law that requires universities to give equal funding to men's and women's athletics, had made "an enormous impact on women's opportunities and participation in sports." If pursued with "necessary attention and enforcement," the same law could make "similar, striking advances" for women in science and engineering. ....Is it true that women are being excluded from academic science programs because of sexist bias? Some researchers agree that bias is to blame; others, perhaps a majority, suggest that biology and considered preference explain why men and women gravitate to different academic fields. But researchers who dispute the bias explanation played little or no role in the Title IX conferences, summits or congressional hearings. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/13/AR2009041302119.html
By Robert Roy Britt -- Fox News -- 4/9/2009 "While some 13 million Americans are out of work these days, those still with jobs might have a strange new thing to worry about — getting a promotion can be bad for you, a new study suggests. British researchers found that when people get promoted, they suffer on average about 10 percent more mental strain and are less likely to find the time to go to the doctor. "Getting a promotion at work is not as great as many people think. Our research finds that the mental health of managers typically deteriorates after a job promotion, and in a way that goes beyond merely a short-term change," said Chris Boyce of the University of Warwick. "There are no indications of any health improvements for promoted people other than reduced attendance at GP surgeries [i.e. doctors visits], which may itself be something to worry about rather than celebrate." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513777,00.html By New Richmond News - Wisconsin 4/13/2009 "Divorced Wisconsinites are not exempt from the recession and more of them are using unemployment benefits to pay their child support. State officials said almost $18 million in child support came through jobless pay in the first three months of this year. That’s more than twice the amount from a year ago. And it’s almost as much as the $22 million collected for all of 2008. The total amount of child support collected statewide was $951 million last year. That’s $22 million more than the previous year, which indicates that divorced kids generally didn’t suffer from the ravages of the economy." Read the entire article: http://www.newrichmond-news.com/articles/index.cfm?id=33810§ion=Wisconsin%20News&property_id=9 By Dan Levine, The Recorder-- Yahoo Finance 3/20/2009 "The federal government got off the sidelines Thursday to throw a few blocks for plaintiffs in a huge gender class action against Wal-Mart. The move is a reversal by the U.S. Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission, which had previously decided to sit the case out. Instead, the EEOC now opposes Wal-Mart's bid to try punitive damages on a case-by-case basis, according to an amicus curiae brief the commission filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...The lawsuit against Wal-Mart represents years of toil for federal judges. The plaintiffs say Wal-Mart uniformly paid women less than men across the country. Then-Northern District Judge Martin Jenkins signed off on the class certification in 2004." Read the entire article: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/EEOC-Reverses-Stance-on-law-14697628.html
By ANNIE PLESHETTE-MURPHY "Parent Bias, Fear of Abuse Allegations and Low Pay Are Cited as Reasons for So Few Male Teachers."
Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/story?id=6070282&page=1
By Robin Givhan - Washington Post Staff Writer "From the moment Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stepped onto the national stage as the Republican vice presidential nominee, she has been rhetorically body-slamming her Democratic opponents."
Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/17/AR2008101700564.html
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